Preparing the IV

[Robin Landseadel]

		The main hallway of the Stemwood place was two stories
	high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of
	Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel
	showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to
	a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and
	convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet
	back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the
	ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I
	stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would
	sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn't
	seem to be really trying.

	Raymond Chandler: "The Big Sleep"