Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

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It was my membership of the Drones Club that now formed the basis of her observations. She didn't like the Drones Club, and made it quite clear that at the conclusion of the honeymoon I would cross its threshold only over her dead body.
So, reckoning up the final score, the Bertram Wooster who signed the charge sheet in the vestry after the wedding ceremony would be a non-smoker, a teetotaller (for I knew it would come to that) and an ex-member of the Drones, in other words a mere shadow of his former self.


All the usual themes are present and correct: unreasonable aunts, kidnapped animals (a cat this time), a jealous lover threatening violence to any man who has ever so much as spoken to the woman he loves, and Bertie Wooster trying to disentangle himself from yet another unwanted engagement.
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And now for our heavenly Mozart. You must be patient with me, Georgino, for you know how badly I read. Caro! How difficult it looks! I am frightened! Lucia never saw such a dwefful thing to read!'
And it had been those very bars which Georgie had heard through the open window just now.
'Georgie's is much more dwefful!' he said, remembering the double sharp that came in the second bar. 'Georgie fwightened, too at reading it. O-o-h!' and he gave a little scream. 'Cattivo Mozart, to write anything so dwefful diffy!'


A comedy of manners, set in an English village in the 1920s. Emmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) rules the upper-class inhabitants of the Elizabethan cottages in Riseholme, guiding all their social and artistic activities with the loyal support of her husband Philip and her friend Georgie Pillson. Her pretentiousness is embarrassingly awful, but very funny; speaking Italian with her husband and baby-talk with Georgie, building an extension to her house furnishing it in the Elizabethan manner, with rushes on the floor, 16th century books and no electric lighting, practicing her part of new piano duets then claiming that it is the first time she has opened the music when she first practises with Georgie (although he knows she does so, and does the same himself), and planning all artistic activities well in advance so she has time to read up on the subject and appear an expert.

When Lucia 'steals' Daisy Quantock's Indian guru, moving him into her spare bedroom and running yoga and meditation classes at her house, her subjects start to get restless, and she finally gets her comeuppance when a newcomer charms the villagers away from her without even trying, including her beloved Georgie.

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