How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good p…”

“Aleksia laughed at her, putting a world of scorn and withering contempt into he…”

“Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. Whe…”

“...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of thei…”