It's just a bit of research, Da. I've been looking at the Marcher castles, or some of them - for a book, you know. Aha. A book? A biography of a woman who lived round here, in the Civil War, a Puritan, who held her castle against the Cavaliers. Aha. Ines didn't tell me you were writing a book. It is the first time he has sounded pleased, really pleased, for a long while. He leans forward, his chin up to listen ... she doesn't think much to me, the woman in question. She's called Brilliana Harley. She lived in Brampton Bryan, the other side of Shrewsbury, near Wigmore, married to an older man called Robert. She disapproves of me. Don't be ridiculous, Mia's father says.