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Sayers is just having a laugh with this. This chapter featured a policeman with a Scottish brogue interviewing the English butler who adds an "haich" before every vowel. Then who joins the conversation? Oh, the Cockney chauffeur, that's who. It felt like a Vaudevillian skit. Is this all to distract from a less-than-superb mystery? Time will tell. And that time will surely be a railroad timetable.

"I'm going to eat one of your ears when I come back." - best threat ever?

"He wondered abstractedly if the love of God and fathers was so lasting because it could neither be denied nor consummated."

'I sometimes wonder,' Clare said, 'how Catholics can bear the thought of anyone, however wicked, being in a hell like that.'

"Ah,' said Léonie, 'we've got you very neatly there. It's only a dogma that hell exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.'

Clare smiled.

'It sounds awfully like Alice in Wonderland.'

'It is. Very,' admitted Léonie.