Anne Scott
/Cooling Off
"I don’t usually appear out-of-doors like an absent-minded professor," said ANNE SCOTT.
"What brand of absent-mindedness did you have in mind?"
"Oh, you know." A bit of a giggle here. “The ones who leave for work minus their trousers. I didn’t leave home minus my dress, I assure you. It’s the weather."
"What weather?"
"All this gorgeous hot stuff. I didn’t think there was any left."
"Oh, come now, Miss Scott, weather has always been a matter of the four seasons."
"Do you have to talk like some diddly-fiddly old dodderer from the Ministry? I’m only trying very simply to explain why I look like this."
"No explanation necessary. Miss Scott. It’s all a very natural development process singularly special to lovely young ladies, and there’s no one it pleases more than an old dodderer from the Ministry."
“There’s no need to make all that much of it. It just happened to get a lot hotter than I expected, so I thought I’d do some cooling off."
"Pardon us while we go jump in the lake. It’s the only way to get our temperature down.”