And so you have the partnership of St Francis and Messalina.

Dick, did you ever hear of a thing called the Superman ?' 'There was a time when the papers were full of nothing else,' I answered.

'I gather it was invented by a sportsman called Nietzsche.' 'Maybe,' said Sandy.

'Old Nietzsche has been blamed for a great deal of rubbish he would have died rather than acknowledge.

But it's a craze of the new, fatted Germany.