"He is on her table. In her room. His photograph, I mean. And she is Continental. She does not have 'raves. "
"The Germans do," Lucy pointed out. "They are famous for it."
"An ill-balanced people," said Desterro, dismissing the Teutonic race. "The Swedes are not like that."
"All the same, I expect she likes the little offerings of flowers."
"She does not, of course, throw them out of the window. But I notice she likes better the ones who do not bring her offerings."
"Oh? There are some who do not have 'raves, then?"
"Oh, yes. A few. The Scots, for instance. We have two." She might have been talking of rabbits. "They are too busy quarrelling to have any spare emotions."
"Quarrelling? But I thought the Scots stuck together the world over."
"Not if they belong to different winds."
" Winds? "