*Yes, I know, I've overdone it here. The thing is, I do love a good quote and was pretty desperate to shoe horn all three of 'em in somewhere, and was running out of chapters. I especially like the William Strunk, it's from a really useful little book on English grammar and so forth, The Elements of style. I read it all the time. And Strunk, of course, is such an ace name, wouldn't you say? Better even than Smout.

I should stop. This will make a funny-looking page; hardly room for the story, which, I've just remembered, is teetering on the brink. Suspense is in the air, and I am, well… I am IN THE WAY. Sorry about that. Exit.