If Dr Anderson is a high priest of access, then Ms Wheen, itinerant commentatrix of the arts, is, if not exactly a high priestess, a pretty high-up vestal virgin.

Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.

It is absurd in any sojourner at the Cape priding himself upon his whipmanship, for every countryman can fan along six or eight horses with as much nicety as a mail-coachman his favourite team: […]

He noted that the flower's petals were incurvate.