@aidan,
Quote:Sorry - I messed up - I put two e's in crochet.
Pity really. You could have had "tiresomely". Going straight head is not always best.
"'Currently, Roger's overshooting Catherine's high expectations: tiresomely!!"
That's more poetic. It says something about the feminine condition from a lady's point of view. I've often noticed how ladies soon find Mr Nice-Guy tiresome. All that "yes my dear, no my leetle cheekadee, have I to plump your cushion princess" stuff. Gawd!! I hate to hear husbands calling their wives "Princess". Year after year and not a single excuse to have a good ranting tantrum. See how much Ms Taylor (Martha) enjoyed Mr Burton (George) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Of course, it's for a lady to say. It is ambiguous. I might say that it is from one of Catherine's friends expressing her frustration to another of Catherine's friends about her, Catherine's, continuous raving about how wonderful Roger is in the sack.
It conjures up a number of other ambiguities which a short post such as this is intended to be hasn't the time to unravel the delicate possibilities.
"Thomas" was panic. Like when your knickers drop down round your ankles, your's I mean--not mine--I never wear the elastic out, on the stage when you're receiving your Major in English Literature. Although, having said that, I can see myself saying it dead-pan, dead-eyed, carefully avoiding any gesture capable of being interpreted as irony, to my mate Thomas, about Roger's line on the the graph in the Manageress's Office showing the tracks of our three indexes of performance.
Which was all in the way of finding some use for your mistake which I hope has made you feel less ashamed of yourself. I'm very forgiving where ladies are concerned.
