QUOTE : Lucy, I’ve been meaning to say: that was an impressive move back there – what you did with the rapier.’<br /><br />‘Thanks.’<br /><br />‘You aimed it perfectly, right between their heads. An inch to the left, and you’d have skewered George right between the eyes. Really sensational accuracy there.’<br /><br />I made a modest gesture. ‘Well . . . sometimes you just do what has to be done.’<br /><br />‘You didn’t actually aim it at all, did you?’ Lockwood said.<br /><br />‘No.’<br /><br />‘You just chucked it. In fact, it was pure blind luck that George lost his balance and fell out of the way. That’s why he wasn’t kebabbed by you.’<br /><br />‘Yup.