‘He’s called Lance, is he?’ ‘After Sir Lancelot, sir. Of the Round Table.’ ‘I’m surprised. That was a rather unpleasant episode, surely.’ ‘He found the Holy Grail,’ Mr Parkis said. ‘That was Galahad. Lancelot was found in bed with Guinevere.’ Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy? Mr Parkis said sadly, looking across at his boy as though he had betrayed him, ‘I hadn’t heard.’
