In describing the Bump-Wump and rope-jumping sessions to Derek, the second time they met in the cocktail lunge, Lucilla managed to make herself appear as an amused bystander to the antics of Paris and her other classmates. She had already sensed that the way to make Derek happy was to tear apart people he knew, and now she fed him pieces of her friends as a mother robin feeds bits of worm to her young.

--from The Form Divine(1951)