In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...

It was rude in the extreme to act the way he did at the funeral.

James may not have known women in the biblical sense; but had Adams read the novels with care, he would have been agreeably surprised by the keen insights on the feminine psyche displayed there.

VVhy vvithdravveſt thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy boſome. A quotation from Psalm 74:11 of the Bible.