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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Really? As a female, it pleases me. Part of that, of course, is that I've read the whole series and I know how Lord Peter *treats* Harriet, with honor and dignity, and allows her to make up her own mind.
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The idea of droit de seigneur pleases you, the promotion of passive inaction toward domestic violence, or both? I
might have been able to give it an "of it's time" pass had the line been written in the 1820s, but in the 1920s it seems anachronistic in addition to repellent.
Meanwhile, the latest "Seriously?!" moment, courtesy of Mr Parker:
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Of course, one couldn't think properly in Paris—it was so uncomfortable and the houses were central heated"
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When I started reading Wimsey, someone here said I was in for a treat, and that Sayers works' had aged better than Allingham's or Marsh's. So far no sign of that. Admittedly, this is only the second book, but so far there has been nothing in either book to suggest the author was writing this tongue-in-cheek, sadly.