It was a day in the very heart of the summer, a day of cloudless skies and wonderful, magic breezes, a day for the dreamingand perchance for the fulfilmentof dreams.

To keep oneself in this court is like coming down the La Chine Rapids where there is a rock to right, and a rock to left, and another perchance in front, and if you so much as graze one, where are you and your birch canoe?

Rajan also had a perchance to hob-nob with politicians.