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Item: young man of excellent education and difficult family seeks wealthy bride. Tendency to social disaster mostly counterbalanced by skill at crossword puzzles and cross-country running.’”
“Do you live here, Jemis? I mean, if you are being disdained by the local gentry I presume you’ve been here longer than a week.”
Mrs. Etaris poured the tea, expression quietly amused. “Oh, there is always much more going on under the surface of a quiet country village than the uninitiated anticipate.
There was no chance of seeing the dragon; there was barely any chance of seeing the other side of the front lawn.
“You sound so surprised, Mr. Greenwing. For a day that has included a dragon’s challenge, a knight, a cursed village, and mysterious warnings from a strange peasant, it would be decidedly disappointing if it did not take an even stranger turn when it came to the accommodations. You can’t have been expecting things to be normal.”
The heart of culture is taking the time to do the unnecessary in the most picturesque manner possible.”
“It’s true we had no city amusements,” Hal agreed cheerfully, “but to be frank, Master Roald, what of it? If one goes to a great university, does one not do well to study at least a portion of the time?”
That class had been a roll-call of almost-famous heroes who had died facing definitely-famous dragons.
“Dragon-slaying is somewhat notoriously messy, Mr. Greenwing. That is why it is usually done far from the haunts of men.” The lines sounded like something out of Fitzroy Angursell, but I couldn’t place them. “Er, I didn’t have time to draw it off.”
