The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey #5)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Cheerio! Speak your bit nicely. You don’t mind if I’m not in the front row, do you? I always take up a strategic position near the door that leads to the grub.”

Amen!

“It’s the same thing,” said the lady viciously; “husbands and parricides, there’s not a halfpenny to choose between them. Only parricides aren’t respectable—but then, they’re easier got rid of.” “Oh!” replied Wimsey, “but I’m not a parricide either—not Mrs. Fentiman’s parricide, at any rate, I assure you.

Took me a moment to get the joke. 😂