Perhaps I’m being a little Scroogesque to inform Susie “No Mates” Rushton about all the beautiful Christmas cards that have been dropping heavily into our hallway, courtesy of our friendly postman.

We will go away in the yacht. Does it matter where we live, so long as we live for each other? Forgive and forget! Oh, Valeria, Valeria, forgive and forget!

His behaviour borders on insanity.

[T]he modern Philosophy holds the Eternity of the Earth, or at least an Antiquity of 50,000 Years; & Mr. Byers gets thirty Zecchines apiece for his Infidel Lectures from all the English who travel thro' Rome […] .