Antonia Forest fans

As a child I did get that Giles was joking (sucking in his cheeks to hide his grin) and the example he gives of breaking bounds at night to go to the circus is obviously over the top but I was furious on Nicola's behalf when she was only doing what he had told her to do and he turned out not to have meant it. Well furious and embarrassed at her having been made to feel a fool.