Fortitude

ng with the London gentleman-it was almost as though he had known about it, beca

d during their journey through the world. Stephen, Zachary, Moses, Dicky, Mrs. Trussit, old Curtis, even Aunt Jessie-all these people had knowledge, of course, but they would not give it you-they would not talk to you as though they were at your stage of the journey, they could not exchange opinions with you, they could not s

s, in the dark, in his bedroom, and thought about it until he had very nearly cried,