This book contains tales of:
LOVE
Descent 3
Sister Angelica 6
By post 12
Takahashi Ichiro, passenger-pusher 16
Amuse-bouche: Romance & relationships 23
POPE RON
The first adventure of Pope Ron 31
The Pope goes swimming 35
You the Pope? 37
The Pope in the country 43
Pope Ron & the book club 47
Pope Ron’s friend 51
Amuse-bouche: Larry Porker & his friends 63
KINDNESS
Jitan 71
Edith van Twist, failed soprano 76
Magnus Bjornbirgir, progressive Viking 81
The handbag 87
Amuse-bouche: Children & their parents 93
POIGNANCY
Housemates 101
What happened three years later 105
The mathematician 112
Amuse-bouche: Life & its pitfalls 117
MEETING IN LIFTS
Mr. Nariman Sodawaterwalla meets Leila Commissariat on the eighth floor of the Cricket Hotel, Mumbai 125
What happened to Phil Butters in the lift 132
Amuse-bouche: Geoff’s cat, Stanley 137
REVENGE
On the way down 145
Clarence Macphail 148
Amuse-bouche: Life & its further pitfalls 153
SCHOOL LIFE & AN EDUCATIONAL ONE
In the swimming pool 161
Boarding-school story 169
The cure 174
Amuse-bouche: Caesar & the world of Rome 181
FRIENDSHIP
Four dentists go on holiday 189
Harry Brick 194
Amuse-bouche: More cats 199
STRANGENESS
At the arachnophobia workshop 207
Enlistment 212
Lord Lucan, fugitive 216
Little Piggish 222
