Plum Pie (2012)
“A Good Cigar is a Smoke 8. A Good Cigar is a Smoke When Lancelot Bingley, the rising young artist, became engaged to Gladys Wetherby, the poetess, who in addition to her skill with the pen had the face and figure of the better type of pin-up girl and eyes of about the colour of the Mediterranean on a good day, he naturally felt that this was a good thing and one that should be pushed along. The sooner the wedding took place, in his opinion, the better it would be for all concerned. He b...roached the subject to her as they were tucking into the poulet roli an cresson one evening at the Crushed Pansy, the restaurant with a soul.
"What I would suggest," he said, "if you haven't anything special on next week, is that we toddle round to the registrar's and encourage him to do his stuff. They tell me these registrar fellows make a very quick job of it. The whole thing wouldn't take more than ten minutes or so, and there we would be with it off our minds, if you see what I mean." To his consternation, instead of clapping her hands in girlish glee and telling him that he had struck the right note there, she shook her head.MoreLess
"What I would suggest," he said, "if you haven't anything special on next week, is that we toddle round to the registrar's and encourage him to do his stuff. They tell me these registrar fellows make a very quick job of it. The whole thing wouldn't take more than ten minutes or so, and there we would be with it off our minds, if you see what I mean." To his consternation, instead of clapping her hands in girlish glee and telling him that he had struck the right note there, she shook her head.MoreLess
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