"You'd forgotten?" There's a tinge of-- it's not despair, because that'd be downright silly and stupid but if stone-set Lucy had found the detail not worth remembrance-- well, that wasn't fair of him at all, was it?

His voice is colored with a childish wonder now. It's the best kind, you know. "That bally Experiment House of his? Just in time to save his skin from tests, too, I shouldn't think!"