Ribald Classic: Not According To Hoyle
July, 1970
The Ladies were sitting in the boudoir, which was sweetly scented and delightfully warm. The flames played in the fireplace, almost giving movement to the figures painted on the folding screen. The ladies were playing a kind of card game that the English call pinochle and the French, mariage. Between the deals, they amused themselves with talk of a particularly spicy divorce case, the newest and liveliest scandal in town. It was thus that they didn't notice when the cards in their hands began to...
