QUOTE : How right you are! Nowadays all that a high-spirited gentleman can do to mend his fortune is to write a best-seller.’ ‘Is that what you’re doing?’ Mr. Wade nodded gravely. ‘I haven’t really got down to it yet but it shouldn’t be too difficult.’ ‘I should think it might be very difficult indeed.’ ‘Not if you go about it properly. Obviously the right way to begin is to buy all the best-sellers and study them carefully.’ ‘A best-seller must be original, Mr. Wade.’ ‘You dismay me, Mrs. Wentworth,’ he declared. ‘I have laid out money I can ill afford on these books; surely if I study them carefully I shall discover what it is that makes them sell like hot cakes.’ I couldn’t help laughing. ‘Why not make hot cakes?’ I suggested.