It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one of Jaujard’s philosophies)

Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line...

The thought came back to him, as it often did: To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life...

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.