I think we are on the same side, Richard; but I don't approve of your paltering with the language in the suggestion that any member of the middle classes must be Mr Average; this seems to me merely to muddy an issue which needs to be kept clear.

Whether he knew what he was doing or not is beside the point, SRS, if what he was doing was not illegal in the place where he was doing it. It might astonish you to learn it, but we are not subject to your laws over here ~ even tho you may think they were declared immutable by that creature in whom, according to your banknotes, you trust. If I should happen to commit a bit of adultery [at my age! Ha! ~~ chance would be a fine thing!], I don't see that I should be in any way inhibited by being required to consider that I should be stoned to death if they happened to hear about it in Saudi Arabia!

~M~