Wimseyfic: Any publicity

The "first lines of your last twenty fics" meme that is going round is making me feel guilty. I had a look, but I really haven't done as much fic in the past twelve months as I would like, and an awful lot of what I have done is pretty short or silly. It isn't that I haven't had ideas, just that the WIPs sit firmly as WIPS to which I add scraps, and Peter and Harriet are still stuck in a punt or engaged in various disastrous conversations, and Narcissa Malfoy is wondering what to do about the Dutch Elm disease.

So spurred on by guilt, I finally got round to the following. It's a missing scene from have His Carcase, in which Peter learns of Harriet's discovery.

Usual disclaimers, not my IP, rated harmlessly grown-up at most, if you read the books you can read this.

( That Vane woman of yours has got herself mixed up in another queer story )