The Marquis Takes A Bride (1980) - Plot & Excerpts
said Mr. Peregrine Deighton. The Marquis of Charrington eyed him with mild surprise. He had returned home in the small hours of the morning to be told by a sleepy butler that Mr. Deighton had been waiting for him in the drawing room since midnight. “Who’s been provoking you, Perry?” said the Marquis lazily. “Do you want me to act as your second?” “I was provoked by a lady,” said Perry. The Marquis had been in the act of helping himself to a glass of canary from the decanter. He put the glass down on the silver tray with a little click and said in a deceptively mild voice, “And what did my dear wife say to you?” “She… she called me ‘little,’” said Perry. “To which you replied…?” “To which I replied that she had the mind of a trollop atop a frigid body,” said Perry miserably. The Marquis stood very still. “Harsh words, dear friend,” he said at last in the soft, gentle voice that Perry knew meant he was very angry indeed. “You will sit just where you are, Perry, and begin at the beginning and go on to the end.”
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