Duff Cooper Quote

Your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar.

letter to Lady Diana Manners, later his wife, October 1914; in Artemis Cooper Durable Fire (1983)

Your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar.

Your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar.

Your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar.

Your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar.