Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

“Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. …”

“Placetne, magistra?""Placet.”

“She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, …”

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... enta…”