“I loved [Patsy], too. Those two when they were sozzled were the most repellent and therefore hysterically funny, risible creatures. … And then to my amazement the country went, ‘But we’re like that!’ And you think, gee-whiz, darlings, please don’t be like that! … I much prefer all that Victorian stiff upper lip. Carry on. ‘I say, your leg looks as though it’s been shot off!’ ‘By God, sir, so it has’.”