“We might go by boat. You could row.”
“WALK.”
“I ought to do these papers.”
“You weren't doing them.”
“No....”
“Walk with me to Grantchester. All this affliction of yours is—horrid—and just nothing at all. Come out of it! I want you to come with me to Russia and about the world. I'm going to leave my wife—”
“Leave your wife!”
“Why not? And I came here hoping to find you clear-headed, and instead you are in this disgusting state. I've never met anything in my life so hot and red and shiny and shameless. Come out of it, man! How can one talk to you?”
10
“You pull things down to your own level,” said Benham as they went through the heat to Grantchester.