Monday, June 08, 2020

"Light cruisers"?

So it had fallen to Lady Lacklander to break the news to Kitty who she had found, wearing her black velvet tights and flame-coloured top, in the drawing room. Lady Lacklander in the course of a long life spent in many embassies had encountered every kind of eccentricity in female attire and was pretty well informed as to the predatory tactics of women whom, in the Far East, she had been wont to describe as "light cruisers."

(from Scales of Justice, by Dame Ngaio Marsh)

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