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It takes a certain kind of insanity to come up with the lines ‘I had nothing near finished; but something made me stop. His eyes were on me, I almost swallowed my heart. I said, I will love you forever, thought what my tongue said was, ‘Is that in your book, my lord?’ As always, Mary Renault defies what I deem to be permissible. I adore her writing beyond measure.