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“... The​ end of a concert performance is sometimes greeted with a rapturous silence, broken only when the players lower their instruments and the audience begins to applaud. What is probably only a few seconds of held breath can feel like an eternity. At Beare’s Chamber Music Festival last December, this honour was bestowed on Schoenberg’s string sextet, Verklärte Nacht ...”

“... the photographer, ‘a little, ugly, underbred-looking thing’; the talkative Misses Eden, Emily and Frances, are old and ugly and stink like polecats. There is a long tedious dinner at the Babington Macaulays, but the host escapes personal comment. Children exasperate Miss Fane; she would not wish her sleep disturbed by ‘a fat maggot’ at her ...”

“... had her set of girls for six years, since they were ten. On p. 13 we learn that one of them, Mary MacGregor, is stupid; on p. 15 she dies in a hotel fire at the age of 24, date presumably 1944, courtesy of a wanton prolepsis. Mary’s death is again displaced when her future fate, already known to us, is prefigured by the account of her terror of fire in the ...”