Anybody who tells you that they know what today's readers want is full of beans.

It’s true that there are handfuls of crusty old “Traddy” Catholics like me, who do have reservations about the Second Vatican Council and the new liturgy.

When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.