6/2: so tender

I'm still listening to The Last Chronicle of Barset on my iPod as I walk. It's a long book, so I've been listening to it for months, but I don't mind because I love it very much. Since I've read the book a number of times, there's an extra pleasure as I listen in being able to remember that this-or-that detail is just about to come up. Tonight I reached a wonderful chapter about the aging Septimus Harding; Trollope presents it all so beautifully and carefully.