On one occasion, after a journey home spent “babbling pleasantly about the Georgian architecture of London,” he tentatively proposes to her as the taxi turns into Mecklenburgh Square from Guilford Street, accepting with grace her customary refusal. Yet Harriet is struck by the realization that Wimsey is, despite his persistence, commendably sensitive to her resistance: her feelings begin to turn when she realizes that he understands instinctively the importance to her of a room of one’s own. He never, she notices, “violated the seclusion of Mecklenburgh Square. Two or three times, courtesy had
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