What a simply splendid birthday gift! Perhaps I could just take the opportunity to remind you that there is another very important birthday coming up on March 19th? (7 months away - that will give you time to prepare).
I'm sure Lady Mary did have to do all the running (she picked that exhibition with great care, didn't she? Not a voluptuous female nude in sight) , Parker being bowed down by class consciousness and general awareness of her utter fantabulousness compared to him (with, of course, that secret core of belief buried deep beneath him that he is nonetheless not a bad chap and a woman could do a great deal worse). His thoughts on Mary are a delight from beginning to end, and I particularly like the "two minutes and an apology to a taxi driver later" line. Also the Wimseys all catching his eye disconcertingly over dinner. And the fact that Parker can catch a glimmer of what Mary might have seen in Goyles where Peter can't.
I bet Mary had to issue the marriage proposal, too, in exactly the same make-it-think-it-was-all-his-idea way.
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I'm sure Lady Mary did have to do all the running (she picked that exhibition with great care, didn't she? Not a voluptuous female nude in sight) , Parker being bowed down by class consciousness and general awareness of her utter fantabulousness compared to him (with, of course, that secret core of belief buried deep beneath him that he is nonetheless not a bad chap and a woman could do a great deal worse). His thoughts on Mary are a delight from beginning to end, and I particularly like the "two minutes and an apology to a taxi driver later" line. Also the Wimseys all catching his eye disconcertingly over dinner. And the fact that Parker can catch a glimmer of what Mary might have seen in Goyles where Peter can't.
I bet Mary had to issue the marriage proposal, too, in exactly the same make-it-think-it-was-all-his-idea way.