Daily Dose

From The Best of Saki, edited by Martin Stephen

THE DOWAGER LADY BEANFORD

"Susan Lady Beanford was a vigorous old woman who had coquetted with imaginary ill-health for the greater part of a lifetime; Clovis Sangrail irreverently declared that she had caught a chill at the Coronation of Queen Victoria and had never let it go again."

From Louise