Desked

The deskless executive faces reality far more readily than the desked executive — if we may call him that — can ever do.

Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.

Thursday with my 11:30 canceled (a standards review, the proctor had the flu), I'd had enough of being desked.