Other carriers buff out their fuselages instead of painting them, reasoning that cracks can hide under layers of thick exterior paint.

I'm a grower. You're a show-er, Robin says, looking downward, comparing himself to George with a self-conscious pang.

Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is! exclaimed the housekeeper.

He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.