― Pièce de Shakespeare , don’t you know. It’s so French, the French point of view. Hamlet ou ⁠ ⁠…

―The absentminded beggar, Stephen ended.

John Eglinton laughed.

―Yes, I suppose it would be, he said. Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.

Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder.