Patrick Leigh Fermor […] was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action—a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69.

We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.

During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.

A roomful house.