"'Alatriste' means 'Sadwing'."

My, what a bomb of intelligence you are, as one of my secretaries once told me.

"I've not read Brat Farrar but saw the television serial."

The book's pretty good. Funny, isn't it, how Tey is best known for three books that are each not only utterly different from the other -- Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair and The Daughter of Time -- but also quite different from what she thought she was primarily doing, which was writing orthodox mysteries.

"José Luis Borges's rendering of the Tichborne story"

Of which rendering I know nothing.