Ms. Osborne notes that in Edwardian London adulterous affairs tended to be conducted between the hours of five and seven (known as a “cinq à sept”) because it took women lots of time in those days to unbutton and unlace their layers of corsets, chemises and underskirts, let alone relace and rebutton them up afterward, so lovers scheduled their visits for just after tea when “ladies were undressing in order to exchange their afternoon clothes for their evening ones.”

[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]

How happy everybody! neighbor talking with neighbor, merchant with merchant, politician with politician, Baptist with Presbyterian, cattlebuyer with banker, druggist with saloonkeeper—everybody with somebody.

Well, it was hot pastrami on a bulkie.