'The brave Wasp's-nest rushes out with all his wasps.
"The French are as ready to go from Florence as the wasps to leave a ripe pear when they have just fastened on it."
Often he fell asleep in the middle of the most interesting part, and then Betty read on to herself, with nothing to break the stillness around her but the buzzing of the wasps, as they darted angrily in and out of the open window above her head.