The waiter replies in a vaguely French accent: "Of course you realize, sir, it will be very expensive".
(Sure, I realize Sir John Templeton calls those words the most dangerous in the English language).
Once I realized that Sir Harry's back-stories were as riveting as his remarkable personal tales, my next question was, "How did he DO that?" There's the obvious.
It's the story of the rich, handsome, generous, athletic Sir Willoughby Patterne, the greatest catch in England, engaged to the lovely Constantia Durham, who, in those days when an engagement was as solemn and binding as a marriage, gradually begins to realize that Sir Willoughby's belief in his own perfection conceals his view that he owns her, and everyone else, and is right in everything.
Mr. Stowell said Sir William realized his patient was Jack the Ripper and had sought the assistance of London's com missioner of police, Sir Charles Warren, in keeping the identity secret.
A pilot in the British Royal Air Force, Sir Frank Whittle realized the potential demand for a fast, high-flying aircraft and laid out a vision of jet propulsion in his senior thesis in 1928, but was ridiculed for it.
Over a hundred years later, in 1951, Sir John Ellerman and Terence Morrison-Scott realized the invalidity of the name Oryx algazel.
Mr. Engels distrusted him and remarked that he always said: "Look, Lady!", when they came to a sight, but never "Look, sir!" Aquilino finally realized his mistake & addressed himself to both.
The last was issued by a remarkable publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, who realized the great demand for pocket-size compendia and drove a thriving trade in issuing a number of these; he is thought to have written large sections of these himself.
Loskarn stood and said "Yes, sir" when the judge asked him if he realized he was facing serious charges.
