“Betjeman, far from being a man of the people, was a climber and a bit of a snob, who preferred the company of the clever and the well-born. In this respect he resembled his friend and contemporary Evelyn Waugh, with whom he had a good deal else in common, apparently including Betjeman’s wife, whom Waugh claimed to have slept with in the process of converting her to Roman Catholicism.”