Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
I take it you cancelled the barbecue on grounds of insensitivity?
It really didn't penetrate my consciousness - I heard about it on the news but my mind and heart were so filled with the dashing Jean-Benoit and the beastliness of Rockingham that I simply couldn't process grubby current affairs.

No. You may keep your Russians. As novelists go, there is no one to touch Daphne.