Sometimes, she and Finn went out in the boat, and left him sitting down on the beach. Sometimes, Kirsty wandered about and Finn and Francis, glad to be resting, watched her as she searched for treasures, things that she would take home and maybe draw later: a banded agate, a chunk of rose quartz,...
Thomas Brown and I were in agreement about that. When he asked if I would gather specimens for him, the state of the physic garden lay at the heart of his request. In fact, the state of the physic garden lay at the root of all that occurred over those next few years. There had been a slow but ste...