Adara was impressed. "How do you know that?" "I learnt it," said Hathil. "It pays to learn things." - Diana Wynne Jones

"Heroes see things like that," he said. "It's obviously an enchantment of some kind," Polly agreed, humouring him. "It must be," he said. It sounded as if he was humouring her.

"Look here," Gerald said, "what do you think of Giants?" There was the kind of pause that happens when people do not like to say what they really think.

What you do is find your centre - can you do that? My navel, you mean? I said. No, no! he howled. You're not a woman! Or are you?