‘Not another! For God’s sake, not another.’ ‘Lionel,’ said his wife. ‘That’s two entire teams, a referee, and a pair of linesmen.’ ‘Lionel!’ The dean raised his head from the pillow. ‘Dear me. I must have been having another of my dreams.’ ‘You were counting out loud.’ ‘Yes, I remember now. I was in St Swithin’s and was suddenly called into the maternity department to perform a delivery. I was in a panic, as I’d absolutely forgotten all my midwifery – it was one of those awful dreams, you know, like when you’re on the stage in front of a huge audience and you’ve no idea of your lines and stark naked into the bargain–’ ‘Perhaps, Lionel, you’d better go and see Dr Bonaccord after all?’ ‘There was the mother, groaning away and bearing down. I remember distinctly, I sat down between her legs in the lithotomy position, and the babies came popping out like rabbits from a warren–’ ‘To quote from my favourite book, The Diary of a Nobody, nothing is so completely uninteresting as other people’s dreams.’ ‘The funny thing was their all being in football togs.
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