MD3PAD 109-111

[Toby G Levy]

        The people on the island are mostly on their way to somewhere
else, including East India Company employees and wives going to and
coming from India to join or leave their military spouses. Dixon points
out one woman who recognizes Mason from  his visits to the public
hangings at Tyburn. She and Mason sing a song about the hangings.

        Mason recalls his wanderings through the nightlife of London the
year after his wife died. He is enticed into conversation with a
beautiful young woman concerning the belief that hanged men get
erections at the moment they are hung.

Toby