Monday, June 05, 2023

Stiff upper lip

     "Bed-making! Gear?" he exclaimed. "But I am baffled. Here is the most distinguished painter of our time, whom I have, above all things, desired to meet and she talks of bed-making as a sequence to murder."

    "She's being British," said Alleyn. "If there were any  bullets about she'd bite on them. Pay no attention."

    "That's right," Troy assured Signor Lattienzo. "It's a substitute for hysterics."

(from Photo Finish by Dame Ngaio Marsh)

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