"I've got a friend who has published a series of novels based on my memoirs," she said (and Mike would have laughed, as he usually did, at her referring to the masses of travel-stained notebooks and odd clipped-and-stapled scraps of paper as memoirs). "I'd often assumed that perhaps some traveller brought tales to Spenser; I'm reasonably certain that I never did. But the bleed-through theory is a better explanation." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Knighted? When and by whom?"

((Yes. Also the Stubbs painting, which, given the lady's portrayal there as a brunette, is even more amusing. ^_^))