Posted by: TM May 22, 2008
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Does the following ring a bell to anyone?
When Arthur Bloxham was in his last term at Oxford University he met a girl undergraduate who attracted him very much indeed. He asked Eve to tea once or twice and then, on the very last day of the term, which happened to be fine and sunny, he suggested that they should go rowing on the river and take a picnic lunch with them. Arthur could not row very well, but managed to get a couple of miles upstream before it was time for lunch. Then the disaster occurred. Arthur stood up to climb out to the bank, but he overbalanced and upset the boat. Both he and Eve fell into the river. The water wasn't deep, but it was cold and muddy. They were both dripping wet, of course, but in addition Eve had lost her handbag, in which she had put a gold wrist-watch which had been given to her on her twenty-first birthday only two months before. There was nothing to do but go home. On their way home Eve refused to speak to him. When they finally arrived at the gates of her college she just disappeared without a word. The next day Arthur had to leave the University and go to London. Before he caught the train he telephoned Eve, but the line was dead.
Six years later Arthur was a promising young lawyer. One day he was asked to take a divorce case. A meeting with his client was arranged. A few days later, Arthur walked into the office, where his client was waiting for him and stopped in surprise.
"Good God!" he said. "Eve!"
"Hello Arthur," she said, "I hope your law is better than your rowing." "If it is not," replied Arthur "I'll buy you another gold watch." Needless to say, Arthur obtained a divorce for his client. And though he did not have to buy her a gold watch, he spent far more than that on taking her out to dinner and theatre in London.
Less than a year later they married. But what Arthur still does not know is that Eve had particularly asked her solicitor to engage a certain young lawyer called Bloxham!
When Arthur Bloxham was in his last term at Oxford University he met a girl undergraduate who attracted him very much indeed. He asked Eve to tea once or twice and then, on the very last day of the term, which happened to be fine and sunny, he suggested that they should go rowing on the river and take a picnic lunch with them. Arthur could not row very well, but managed to get a couple of miles upstream before it was time for lunch. Then the disaster occurred. Arthur stood up to climb out to the bank, but he overbalanced and upset the boat. Both he and Eve fell into the river. The water wasn't deep, but it was cold and muddy. They were both dripping wet, of course, but in addition Eve had lost her handbag, in which she had put a gold wrist-watch which had been given to her on her twenty-first birthday only two months before. There was nothing to do but go home. On their way home Eve refused to speak to him. When they finally arrived at the gates of her college she just disappeared without a word. The next day Arthur had to leave the University and go to London. Before he caught the train he telephoned Eve, but the line was dead.
Six years later Arthur was a promising young lawyer. One day he was asked to take a divorce case. A meeting with his client was arranged. A few days later, Arthur walked into the office, where his client was waiting for him and stopped in surprise.
"Good God!" he said. "Eve!"
"Hello Arthur," she said, "I hope your law is better than your rowing." "If it is not," replied Arthur "I'll buy you another gold watch." Needless to say, Arthur obtained a divorce for his client. And though he did not have to buy her a gold watch, he spent far more than that on taking her out to dinner and theatre in London.
Less than a year later they married. But what Arthur still does not know is that Eve had particularly asked her solicitor to engage a certain young lawyer called Bloxham!