The contract of marriage
Artefact
Late-arriving documentary instrument in the family plot. Matrimony ceases to be rumour once produced on paper.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…proffers it across the table, whereupon Dr Mark Wankstain is astonished to find himself perusing a copy of contract of marriage between Lord Handjob and a party the identity of whom is no longer obscured by a strategically-placed Cheseham thumb.