She dotingly accompanies Joel down to amateur nights at a downstairs dive in the Village, where she bribes the manager with a Pyrex dish of home-cooked brisket to give her husband a turn on stage.

Here’s the problem: We only have one more episode left to salvage our butler, and I’m not sure it can be done — no, not even by Mrs. H’s referring to him dotingly as “my curmudgeon.”

The birds dotingly present their partner with branches, clumps of dried marsh grass and even “decorations.”

In one corner, Charlotte Gainsbourg was dotingly watching her daughter decorate a mask with sequins and feathers.

Some mornings since, I breakfasted with Lord Houghton again—he invites me most dotingly.