fortify yourself for the ordeal.'
Mr Herring and Mr Upjohn are not on speaking terms, sir.'
He would appear to have no alternative, miss.'
I mean, you often put a thing somewhere and think you've put it somewhere else and then find you didn't put it somewhere else but somewhere.
fairly green about the gills
I have no information, sir.
As the poet Burns says, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.'
