"I might deceive you," he said with disarming candour, "but I won't. I am the Saint." He absorbed the reflex ripples of expression that jerked over the seated men, and smiled again. "Yes--I'm the guy you've been wanting to meet all these years. I am the man with the load of mischief. I," said the Saint, who was partial to the personal pronoun, and apt to become loquacious when he found that it could start a good sentence, "am the Holy Terror, and the only thing for you boys to do is try and look pleased about it."
This is the result of my frustration with the episode "Michael" - one of those stories that insists on being written, no matter how much other stuff is waiting to be done. Fills the 'transformation' slot for plot20.
...It turned out a bit longer than I expected.
Michael makes a choice. John teaches him card games.