Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads

A comic gem of mistaken identity and deliberate mischief. When our narrator charters a small boat to cruise the Norfolk Broads, he expects a quiet holiday. Then along comes Bunce, a gullible soul prone to grand conclusions. Spotting the narrator's companion Mr. Bradley, Bunce decides on the spot that this East End London policeman must be a Foreign Office diplomat. Who are our heroes to disabuse him? Instead, they play along with exquisite pleasure, watching Bunce's imagination run wild with class envy. The boat is called The Shamrock, the ale flows at the village inn, and the joke stretches longer than anyone anticipated. Zorn writes with the gentle glee of a man who knows that some misunderstandings are simply too delicious to correct.