In February 1943, when wartime rationing was at its height and many foreign luxuries were unobtainable in Britain, Marjorie Barber sent her friend, novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, a lemon in a jeweler's box.

Mo Moulton's previous work for The Toast can be found here.

"Peter, what did you mean when you said that anybody could have harmony if they would leave us the counterpoint?’" 

"Why,’" he said, shaking his head, ‘that I like my music polyphonic. If you think I meant anything else, you know what I meant.’"

This conversation between Lord

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