The cub, as Hambledon had called Gordon Palmer, was seventeen years old, dreadfully sophisticated, and entirely ignorant of everything outside the sphere of his sophistication.
— Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder
The cub in question is an insufferable young upperclass lout out on a world tour in the mid-1930’s. It’s the unknown unknowns that get you at that age.
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