An excellent plan, sir, brilliantly conceived and impeccably drawn. I have discussed it with my best-beloved Wyffe, and her view is that the notion of fan-girls tapping on bedroom windows is unacceptable due to certain moral reservations upon which we approximately agree.

I explained to her that the fan-girls would be an ineluctable and inseparable part of the whole, the negligible price of the greater good, but her view was adamantine and immovable. Thanks for your sterling efforts, in gratitude for which I have duly seen that your maritime persona has been relieved of onerous pumping duties.


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