may the saints preserve us

"Anne! Dear God in Heaven and may the Saints preserve us! You have got to make up contingency plans for in case Mother is booked into the Days Inn by Billy. Now I suggest that you go a day or two ahead of time and gather up the "girls' and explan to them who is descending up on them MOTHER,may God have mercy upon them! Make certain that they will be correctly dressed. Dress not too long and not too short and most of all they are to be wearing a strand of pearls,because as you know no decent girl would be caught dead without her pearls! and of course her white gloves!!"

an email from my Uncle Gwynne in response to an email warning to not book rooms at the local transvestite prostitute hotel