- [first lines]
- Lionel: Why can't they design a raincoat that stops the rain going down the back of your neck?
- Jean: In Los Angeles you were looking forward to rain.
- Lionel: That was in Los Angeles.
- Jean: A drizzly day in Holland Park you kept saying.
- Lionel: Mm, but it took you to tell Cy Lieberman that it was the title for my next book. You're getting as bad as Alistair.