‘I have yet to learn that my verses and my art causerie are of second-rate quality,’ said Mrs. Thundleford with acerbity.

Almost drowning put him off swimming.

Before the scandal broke, she had suggested to him that Rumsford was a candidate to play the part of 'Iron Face McQuire', the hairy-testicled, bullfrog-voiced, hero of The Golden Lane.

Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the pornification of other women […]