Mrs Spelling

We have had an unfortunate event at the scriptorium; namely an oily deposit on the ladders which almost resulted in shoddy  death when the  low friction leather soles of my library-creepers came into contact with it. `I  feel it may  have been the Spelling woman’s fault-  if that is not too Poirotesque an assertion. But let us face the fact that Mrs Spelling  has always struck me as a vicious stunted misanthrope. And yet she has never failed to bring the tea on time.