In case you can’t pin the passage down, it is not from “Mrs. Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man is Jack Ryan .

It always felt as though this British and Irish Lions squad were ripe for first-time tourists to assert themselves. Two matches in, that hunch has already been validated. After excellent displays from ...