Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person,....

“ Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm. ”

Hope Mirrlees

From : Lud-in-the-Mist