Peter Gordon can also have a little a hand injury, as a treat.
Sometimes Tang Fan does indeed forget that he is not, in fact, the only learned man under their shared roof.
In a public street, Goodsir gazes at another man with a less-than-scientific eye and gets more than he bargains for.
Later, Holden and Debbie talk Vacaville.
Following a public display of unity, a private display of unity.
Tang Fan returns early, only to arrive late.
Irving takes it on himself to correct Mr. Hickey's permissive attitudes regarding buggery.
Well, it's not quite a hairshirt.
"You would not hurt me," is what he says, careful, caged in. "You could never hurt me."
This, they have argued to a stalemate of irreconcilable disagreement; could so continue to press in unwinnability until the Heavens broke open overhead and the mountains crashed down astride them. But Sui Zhou serves to live as much as a man as he does a blade, and in that he is long intimated with the lay of blame for a tool in the wield of a hand.
Six years later, Fitzjames and Crozier broach a delicate topic in the privacy of a well-heated room.
Sequel to More Fools Than Wise.