This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.

Not that I go in for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.

'You said it,' she repeated, stepping out of her dress and standing before him in all her glory–naked except for a thin diamond chain around her waist, a rhinestone encrusted thong and Jimmy Choo stilettos.

A healthy trepidation about microbes, lice and the like is the key to a happy prissy lifestyle.