[manus]

"The 'Tate's' are nice," said Manus, rubbing his chin.

For no apparent reaason.

Suddenly Manus remembered that rubbing his chin whilst saying something that might, by some people, require the "inverted commas" hand signals was a lot less annoying.

And probably added a bit more "mood" to the piece.

However as the story begins with "It was a dark and stormy night, a wolf howled a howly howl and I heard footsteps behind me," I think that the fact that I was rubbing my chin was redundant in helping the mood. I also think that I would be unlikely to be thinking about the 'Tates' in such a situation, seeing as I was being hunted by a hungry pack of wolves.

Even though they are very pretty.