He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.

“Clayton's getting so broody. This might help put things into perspective for him. I want a family, but I need to establish my career first. I'm not in a rush,Clayton countered. You practically teared up at the sight of Serena's tiny socks the other day. You've got baby fever bad."

He had much to learn about boys, and he learnt not by direct observation—for which he believed he was unfitted—but by sedulous imitation of the more experienced masters.

Finally delivering “Room on Fire,” the follow-up to their much ballyhooed debut album, the well-heeled but stylishly bedraggled locals try to dispel accusations of one-trick-ponyism.