Quote of the Hour: Suburban Ennui

In the course of a letter to the South London Argus exposing the hellhounds of the local Gas Light and Water Company, Major Flood-Smith of Castlewood had once referred to Mulberry Grove as a "fragrant backwater." He gave the letter to his parlour-maid to post, and she forgot it and found it three weeks later in a drawer and burned it, and the editor would never have printed it, anyway, as it was diametrically opposed to the policy for which the Argus had always fearlessly stood, but - and this is the point we could stress - in describing Mulberry Grove as a fragrant backwater the Major was dead right.

 - P.G. Wodehouse, Big Money, p.96