'I doubt it. Did you ever see Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury? I played the Usher in Trial by Jury once in my younger days. At a village in Hampshire in aid of the church organ fund.'

'I wish I'd been there.'

'Yes, you missed an unforgettable experience. But what I was going to say was that Judson Phipps always reminds me of the Defendant in that operetta. To refresh your memory, he was constantly getting engaged and then changing his mind and sneaking out of it. Judson does the same, and it always ends in him having to come to Bunting and Satterthwaite to arrange a settlement.'

Plum Pie. 9 Life with Freddie