'You've noticed me pissing myself, haven't you?' Daniel said. 'You imagine that it's your fault – that you put such a terror into me, just now, that I could not hold my urine. Well, you did have me going, it is true, but that's not why piss is running down my leg. I have the stone, Sergeant, and cannot make water at times of my own choosing, but rather I leak and seep like a keg that wants caulking.'