"I welled up at just the thumbprint on the side of a letter, written by a double agent in the 1700s who was working for the Jacobites," he says.
他说：“我在看到信件一侧留下的拇指印记那刻起就不可抑制自己的写作冲动，该封信是一位 18 世纪为雅各布派工作的双重特工所写。”