A McGriddle, perhaps? Ah, at long last, a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. She took a huge bite of the cold biscuit, the otherwise tasty grease congealed like the orangey-yellow cheese slice, crumbling the enormous biscuit as she pulled it ...

The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.

' I always felt you were no gentleman, and this proves it,' remarks the disconsolate yet temperless Ladlaw, as he pockets his cash.

And even amongst those who are of the bachelor persuasion, there are not a few honest trumps who never exhibit old boyism.