"You know, I expect, that I've become friends with Jonathan Strange," he says. "Well—for the last few months, he has been teaching me magic. His world's sort of magic. Truthfully I didn't think it was possible, but ..." He laces his fingers together tightly. "I ought to have told you. But Strange doesn't trust his warden, and at the time I wasn't sure how I ought to speak of it to you, and then—well. It seemed simpler to continue to say nothing. But after the incident with his curse, Strange told Persson about it, and I reckoned you had better hear it from me first."
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"You know, I expect, that I've become friends with Jonathan Strange," he says. "Well—for the last few months, he has been teaching me magic. His world's sort of magic. Truthfully I didn't think it was possible, but ..." He laces his fingers together tightly. "I ought to have told you. But Strange doesn't trust his warden, and at the time I wasn't sure how I ought to speak of it to you, and then—well. It seemed simpler to continue to say nothing. But after the incident with his curse, Strange told Persson about it, and I reckoned you had better hear it from me first."