And what petty affairs they are. No, one is not the sort of fellow to repeat something again and again, ad nauseum , over and over and over and over again. One is crisp and to the point. One does not repeat. One is crisp and to the point.
Brevity is, of course, the hallmark of one's style.
Unfortunately, one's readers often desire anonymity when they write one with their questions, and while ordinarily one is all too willing to expose them in the name of jolly good fun, one occasionally has tender moments in which one relents. One turns over this forum to simple, straightforward answers to difficult and touchy problems. One trusts that the correspondents will feel one has preserved their anonymity. And if they don't, one hardly gives a flip. To Mr. Osgood.