Because your exile must have been lacking in a great deal of books, would be my best guess.
[ Think, Strange, what is in England a magician trying to bring his dead wife back might need? Childermass is sure he doesn't need to go as far as to tell him he went to Hurtfew directly. As to the question of why he doesn't know the full truth, it would seem he's hit a sore point.
It brings him and, consequently, Strange to a stop at a crossroads in the maze. He looks around them, at all the reflections surrounding the two, then pushes the other man in the right direction. ]
Down that way. It's the corridor to the exit. [ He'll let Strange go on ahead this time, then follow along after, and there's something oddly bitter in his tone now, even as he works to keep a matching expression off his face. ] And I do not know because I was not there.
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[ Think, Strange, what is in England a magician trying to bring his dead wife back might need? Childermass is sure he doesn't need to go as far as to tell him he went to Hurtfew directly. As to the question of why he doesn't know the full truth, it would seem he's hit a sore point.
It brings him and, consequently, Strange to a stop at a crossroads in the maze. He looks around them, at all the reflections surrounding the two, then pushes the other man in the right direction. ]
Down that way. It's the corridor to the exit. [ He'll let Strange go on ahead this time, then follow along after, and there's something oddly bitter in his tone now, even as he works to keep a matching expression off his face. ] And I do not know because I was not there.