One or two people join in the chorus. But I'm left marvelling at John's voice. I don't mean the technical qualities, I mean the substance of it. Throughout the trip, John has revealed himself to be a gentle, selfless soul and I haven't the slightest doubt that he sees the maiden in his mind's eye - fifty years his junior and a member of the opposite sex - and that he empathises with her, one mortal human to another.
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