To win the contest meant you would be chosen to apprentice in magic as a priest under her tutelage. ‘And that object confirms me in the belief that it is not I who will shortly meet my maker. His guardian angel warned Spurlock to speak carefully. The noise of a bolt came to Alderley’s ears. But I know very well that that word will never be spoken. “You think that this is all. What had Brewis Charvill to say to that, Gerald?’ ‘He had nothing to say to it. She felt that she had passed a difficult corner, and that now she could go on talking with him again, just as she had been used to do before she understood what was the matter with her.