So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.

Carrying the hot water kettle, Mark follows the footpath through the dark camp to the boma. Surrounded by tall grass the boma is a three-sided structure of sticks and reeds standing at the edge of Marula Puku.

Guilt 'cos I always s'vived an' 'scaped despite my dirtsome'n'stony soul.

Maisie, quitting Sir Claude, went over to them and, clasped in a still tenderer embrace, felt entrancingly the extension of the field of happiness.