Lessons in Discovery in print today

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Orlando loses his memory, the lads get given a case upon which the honour of the college stands and - in this scene - Jonty makes the mistake of letting on a bit too much a bit too quickly...

The room was hot, Orlando having stoked the fire up, so Jonty stripped off his jacket and tie and rolled up his sleeves. He wore a fine pair of dun-coloured braces, articles which brought bittersweet memories. He and Orlando had often, on their return from holiday, played a game in which they tried to ping the other’s braces in public without anyone else noticing. Such satisfaction it had given, not just from the wonderful thwack which the elastic made when it was released, but from the little sting of pain that it would provoke in the man who’d been caught. There were no such games now.
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