When a bar was installed at the Royal Albert Hall, last week, just 61 years after its foundation, the first person to order a drink was The Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His Majesty, and Dean of Windsor.
While sipping a glass of fine tawny sherry, the Very Reverend Chaplain-in-ordinary said: "It would be nonsensical for anyone to suppose [sip] that I am now encouraging drunkenness [sip].
Temperance is founded [sip] upon people being sensibly self-controlled [sip]."
Whereupon the Very Reverend Sipper paid for his single tawny drink, and ambled placidly from...
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