She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.

The recesses of the forest answered well the purposes of concealment, and Lucy was useful both as an unsuspected messenger, and also for the intelligence she was able to obtain.

the 0800 number advice line receives over five hundred calls a year

The rules and rites that have come down through time are followed with Gormenghastian rigour, even though the reasons for some bits have long been forgotten […]