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seph in the Bible. I'm sure he was a quite intolerable young man, actually, and long overdue for that pushing into the pit. Perhaps young Edward was just sitting up and begging to be quietly put down.'
'There were two of them,' Grant reminded her.
'Yes, of course. Of course there isn't an explanation. It was the ultimate barbarism. Poor little woolly lambs! Oh!'
'What was the "Oh" for?'
'I've just thought of something. Woolly lambs made me think of it.'
'Well?'
'No, I won't tell you in case it doesn't come off. I must fly.'
'Have you charmed Madeleine March into agreeing to write the play?'
'Well, she hasn't actually signed a contract yet, but I think she is sold on the idea. Au revoir, my' dear. I shall look in soon again.'
She went away, sped on her way by a blushing Amazon, and Grant did not remember anything about woolly lambs until the woolly lamb actually turned up in his 'room next evening. The woolly lamb was wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, which in some odd way emphasized the resemblance instead of detracting from it. Grant had been dozing, more at peace with the world than he had been for' some time; history was, as Matron had pointed out, an excellent way of acquiring a sense of perspective. The tap at his 'door was so tentative that he had decided that he had imagined it. Taps on hospital doors are not apt to be tentative:' But something made him say: 'Come in!