“So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.”

—  Evelyn Waugh , book Put Out More Flags

Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 3 : Spring

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