Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time

Perhaps the believers in the narrative of the mystical marriage could not recognise the reign of the sober and distinctly non-fanatic William and Mary as the happy ending of Sion in Distress or the miracle Keach represents it as being on the front cover of Distressed Sion Relieved: 'the late Admirable and Stupendious Providence which hath wrought such a sudden and Wonderful Deliverance for this Nation, and Gods Sion therein'.

the rain was lashing down

She saw that he loved Ethel Churchill, utterly, worshippingly: that the withered flower which Ethel flung from her was to him a treasure.