I saw the picture of little Toby, & the sketch of you was like you then, though not much now — your figure having dowdified somewhat.

According to a study conducted by Lofstedt, Shusheng, and Johansson (2004), in China high gender ratios of males at birth are due to abortion practices. Between 1984 and 1987 rates of abortions for female fetuses in Huaning County, Yunnan Province, in China increased, creating a ratio of 107 males to 100 females, while between the period from 1988-2000 the ratio rose again to 110 males to 100 females.

The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one.

The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.