Watson was better than his word: in addition to hot chocolate, he produced round after round of steaming pancakes. It was wonderful and surreal sitting together like this, the four of us chattering around the professor’s dining room table where not so very long ago there had been Christmas dinner and conversation about the Romantics. Now Janis was telling animated stories about her extended family and their ridiculous diatribes over the holidays and the heated the battle over which news ...