Not that I go in for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.

A healthy trepidation about microbes, lice and the like is the key to a happy prissy lifestyle.

This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.

'You said it,' she repeated, stepping out of her dress and standing before him in all her glory–naked except for a thin diamond chain around her waist, a rhinestone encrusted thong and Jimmy Choo stilettos.