As Childermass goes off to fetch the kettle, Strange takes that as an invitation to sit down. And it's only when he finds a seat and he's sitting down in the chair that he realizes he really doesn't want to get up. He's not sleepy, exactly, but Strange knows that if he gets up, he'll immediately want to sit back down again. Besides, it's better to explain these things if he's seated.
"It turns out you needn't have worried about telling me of my future. I've recovered my sanity here but when I returned to England, I was thrust back into the state in which I left: utterly mad. Any memories I retained of the carnival, I shoved into the same category as the memories of pineapples and candles. Possibly true, but possibly madness."
Which at least in Strange's mind, is a damned nuisance. He could have done so much differently had he remembered his experiences with the fae here! He could have saved himself and Norrell as well as Arabella and Lady Pole.
"I summoned a faerie, learned Norrell had summoned the faerie as well, went to confront him, found Arabella, and got cursed for my troubles. Although," Strange remarks, with a little frown, "I'm surprised you didn't know already. Didn't I explain it in the letter?"
The letter in the box with the finger, sent to Childermass via Drawlight. The letter that Strange doesn't know Childermass never received because Henry Lascelles is a grade-A dickhead. Strange honestly can't remember if he explained it or didn't—a side effect of the madness, he assumes, his memory's not as good as it was.
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"It turns out you needn't have worried about telling me of my future. I've recovered my sanity here but when I returned to England, I was thrust back into the state in which I left: utterly mad. Any memories I retained of the carnival, I shoved into the same category as the memories of pineapples and candles. Possibly true, but possibly madness."
Which at least in Strange's mind, is a damned nuisance. He could have done so much differently had he remembered his experiences with the fae here! He could have saved himself and Norrell as well as Arabella and Lady Pole.
"I summoned a faerie, learned Norrell had summoned the faerie as well, went to confront him, found Arabella, and got cursed for my troubles. Although," Strange remarks, with a little frown, "I'm surprised you didn't know already. Didn't I explain it in the letter?"
The letter in the box with the finger, sent to Childermass via Drawlight. The letter that Strange doesn't know Childermass never received because Henry Lascelles is a grade-A dickhead. Strange honestly can't remember if he explained it or didn't—a side effect of the madness, he assumes, his memory's not as good as it was.