I'm already in Cold Comfort Farm (do filmscripts count?), and I want out. I would rather be in My Fair Lady, as a Pickering or Mrs. Pearce. Sadly, Gilbert & Sullivan's roles for older women are unfunny from the inside. The Wicked Witch of the West would be tremendous fun, right up until some chit threw a bucket of water at me.

Oh, I know. I could be a rude mechanical.

Nine