This I had from Mateu’s own cousin as we danced – ’ ‘You danced?’ cried Jack, far more astonished than if Stephen had said ‘as we ate our cold roast baby’. ‘Certainly I danced. Why would I not dance, pray?’ ‘Certainly you are to dance – most uncommon graceful, I am sure. I only wondered … but did you indeed go about dancing?’ ‘I did.

