The Second Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer

Author:John Mortimer [Mortimer, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Humour
ISBN: 9780140089585
Google: gA_OtwadcK8C
Amazon: 0140089586
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1987-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

Whatever may be said about the equality of the sexes, there is still something about the nature of women which parts the average man almost entirely from his marbles. Faced with most problems, both Erskine-Brown and Ballard might have proved reasonably resolute. When the question concerned a moderately personable young woman, they became as clay in the potter's hands. These thoughts passed through my mind as I lay in bed that night staring at the ceiling, while Hilda sat at the dressing table in night attire, brushing her hair before coming to bed.

'What are you thinking, Rumpole?' she asked. 'I know you, Rumpole. You're lying there thinking about something!'

'I was thinking,' I confessed, 'about man's attitude to the female of the species.'

'Oh, were you indeed?' Hilda sounded deeply suspicious.

'On the one hand the presence of a woman strikes him with terror!'

'Really, Rumpole, don't be absurd,' Hilda said severely.

'And fierce resentment.'

'Is that what you were thinking?'

'And yet he finds her not only indispensable, but quite irresistible. Faced with a whiff of perfume, for instance, he is reduced to a state bordering on imbecility.'

'Rumpole. Are you really?' Hilda's voice had softened considerably. The room became redolent with the smell of lavender water. Hilda was spraying on perfume.

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