un-lion-like

Updated: May 7, 2025

It amused me very much to see Derrick turned into a lion he was so essentially un-lion-like. People were for ever asking him how he worked, and I remember a very pretty girl setting upon him once at a dinner-party with the embarrassing request: "Now, do tell me, Mr. Vaughan, how do you write stories? I wish you would give me a good receipt for a novel."

Edna Lyall - Derrick Vaughan, Novelist