Nabby Adams approached him ingratiatingly.

We successfully averted Hilary Duff's Valley Girl riff (A Cinderella Story) and Julia Stiles' Midwestern spin (The Prince & Me), only to crash head-on into more Hathaway in PD 2: Royal Engagement, an odious piece of plutography, the bait being more Julie Andrews.

But, he says, this person may be Wikipedically naïve. “They didn’t quite know what they were getting into — they got a lot of conflict-of-interest notes,” he said.

It amused poor Dencombe, as he dawdled in his tepid air-bath, to think that he was waiting for a revelation of something at the back of a fine young mind.