He’s my peg for the nervous breakdown of the Romantic Imagination.
BERNARD What about the letters? No mention?
HANNAH I’m afraid not. I’ve been very thorough in your period because, of course, it’s my period too.
BERNARD Is it? Actually, I don’t quite know what it is you’re . . .
HANNAH The Sidley hermit.
BERNARD Ah. Who’s he?
HANNAH He’s my peg for the nervous breakdown of the Romantic Imagination. I’m doing landscape and literature 1750 to 1834.
