... high stiff collar, and a bow like Chopin's. John Nethers, said Malnik. Then, when no light of rapture flashed from Colvin's face, he said, author of Cornelia Sorry, said Colvin, shaking his head. John Nethers was the son of a chemist in this town ...

... it delighted, in fact. He took out his watch, peered at it in the furnace- glow. He was wearing a clerical collar, an old cardigan, pepper-and-salt tweed trousers tucked into rubber boots. Iris, with that taste early instilled in her by his vigorous sons ...