Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
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Read between June 5 - June 6, 2017
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It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it?
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Harriet wrote a tart letter to the paper, pointing out that either ‘undergraduate’ or ‘woman student’ would be seemlier English than ‘undergraduette,’
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I should like to write you the kind of words that burn the paper they are written on – but words like that have a way of being not only unforgettable but unforgivable. You will burn the paper in any case; and I would rather there should be nothing in it that you cannot forget if you want to. Well, that’s over. Don’t worry about it.