Neville and his wife joke about clothes given to their maid Doris

Neville gives his maid Doris clothes that are not worn out — only a broken seam — and his wife joked that evening that Doris would soon catch on and make a little broken seam herself.
Date (happened)
tonight
unresolved
  1. tonight relative
    Source The Dreamer ¶25"tonight", told in The Dreamer (nid 1895)
    Said as tonight
    counted from The Dreamer
  2. tonight relative
    Source "tonight", told in The Dreamer (nid 2201)
Place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 23 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source The Dreamerdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 1895 'The Dreamer' -- chrome dateline '2/23/65', confirmed, cross-checked against the Aneurin-Bevan-dead detail; consistent with the lecture's other delivery claim (bound/after 1948)
    Reasoning Passage 548121 has Neville himself narrating, in first person, his wife's joke that same evening about the maid Doris and the broken seam; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 1895, is dated 1965-02-23 by its confirmed chrome-dateline delivery claim (exact/probable), which is consistent with the lecture's other, coarser bound claim (after 1948). The telling inherits the dateline claim's own precision and confidence, not improved upon.
Sources

Source

  • The Dreamer ¶25 (So my wife said to me tonight, “Neville, she’ll catch on after awhile and she’ll make a little broken seam there.” I said, “No she won’t, perfectly alright.”)
  • The Dreamer ¶25 (And so my wife says to me tonight, “You know, you catch on after a while, and you make a little broken seam there.” I said, “No, you won’t. Certainly you won’t.”)