Thursday, July 16, 2009

Meanwhile, in the Forest

"Really, Sir Bertram," retorted Miss Hampton-fforbes, "Another suggestion like that and I shall have to strike you with my muff. I must warn you, sir, that it is zinc-lined!"

2 comments:

  1. A muff strike?

    It's been done.

    They called it Lysistrata.

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  2. What a coincidence! That is in fact Miss Euphemia L. Hampton-fforbes's middle name.

    And what Sir Bertram calls himself whilst trying on his late mother's Worth peignoirs in the privacy of his own dressing room after one too many brandy-and-sodas at the club...

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