“I just ran into Lady Schrapnell. She’s decided what this cathedral needs is—” “A wedding?” I said. “No, a christening. So they can use the Purbeck marble baptismal font.” “I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to,” I said. “I could sic Lady Schrapnell on Carruthers and Warder, and you could make a run for it to someplace safe. Like the Battle of Waterloo.”
