The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it.
Ker quizzled again at Simon's effeminate walk. But reaching no untoward conclusions.
You work, and play, and clean, and love, and hate, and that's lots of damn spoons . . . but if you are young and healthy you still have spoons left over as you fall asleep and wait for the new supply of spoons to be delivered in the morning.
By mixing advanced and beginner techniques, and by being contentious (if you don't like him) or too honest (if you do), Bill offered his “humaniac” adversaries a big, fat target.