" The fat man, taken by surprise, was very hurt.
"Search me, Missus."
"I might if I had the time. Her bright eyes, small and dark as his own, took in his great bulk with wicked amusement. "What are you carrying about with you? The dome of St Paul's?"
"Ho! Who's talking, eh?" As the insult went home he forgot all caution. "Margot Fonteyn of the Convent Garden I suppose. "

― Margery Allingham , The Tiger in the Smoke (Albert Campion Mystery, #14)