[…] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.

One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro, Delicately and imperceptibly, Now swaying gently in a row, Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,

Bathmophobia, as with other clinical fears, is generally not diagnosed in children unless it persists for more than six months.

What really matters within the overall plot is that while Sam, who is 57, tries to clear his son, he meets his son's former lover, Jacqueline, who was a very young French operative during the war and still is very young shortly after it. They begin an affair. […] There is a pseudoincest factor ripe enough to raise a jaded Freud's eyebrows and just as many twists of fate to fool even Tiresias.