That’s what this lady at the table next to mine just asked her gentleman friend.
“Yes! Dear lord yes!” I want to shout.
"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
That’s what this lady at the table next to mine just asked her gentleman friend.
“Yes! Dear lord yes!” I want to shout.
‘wonderful’ is relative.
i enjoyed your high society use of ‘gentleman friend.’ it was so edith wharton. “…for it would be inconceivable to his hosts that a gentleman travelling without luggage should wish to spend the night, and distasteful to them to propose it to a person with whom they were on terms of such limited cordiality as Beaufort.”
or, smell something ‘wonderful.’