What did he say to him? Norrell scowls at the question, as if somehow the actual words are deemed unimportant.

"He was asking me about a book. A trick, I am sure of it. A book of great potential, he said, seemingly fiction. I have never heard of such nonsense, and the author is not familiar to me. It is a trick, I know it. A fae trick, designed to make a fool of me. I will not have it."