As he passed the tape round the stranger's foot, he found that his hands were trembling.

And as he knelt before her on one knee, the young woman studied, with a slight repugnance, the large head, wedged beneath the shoulders as if a giant's hand had pressed it down, and the hump projecting behind, monstrous and inhuman.

Suddenly Jonah looked up and met her eyes.

She coloured faintly.
"Wot sort of fit do yer like ?" he asked.

His voice, usually sharp and nasal, was rather hoarse.
All her life she remembered that moment.