I have a perhaps bad habit of saving books I think I'll really enjoy for when I feel down, I suffer from severe depressive, so I've only just started reading 'A Star Shall Fall'. More precisely part 6. Now The Riddle, I have tried looking this up, even to the point of searching for certain words in an anthology of The Gentleman's Magazine and though I can find references to Elizabeth Carter and 'The Riddle,' I can't find anything that matches or helps me solve it. I just want to know the answer because it's driving me mad, in a good way. I think - and perhaps quite aptly given the subject matter - that the answer is either fire or time. Help? Also really enjoying the book as I hoped I would, though 'With Fate Conspire' is now staring banefully from my special cordoned off 'to read' pile.