In Which Lord Peter Wimsey is a huge dork

I'm continuing to read Dorothy L. Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries and am on to 'Strong Poison' where she intended to end the series by marrying him off. I can kind of see why Harriet Vane, the love interest gets a reputation as a Mary Sue, even though she's barely been IN the book at this point. It's a bit much when you're a woman writing a mystery about a woman mystery writer accused of poisoning her ex-lover with arsenic who has just written a book about a woman mystery writer who is accused of poisoned her current lover with arsenic. Though for the sake of irony it's almost a shame that Dorothy Sayers wasn't ever accused of poisoning anyone.

But what I really love is how utterly dorktastic Lord Peter is when he's smitten. And I can't resist sharing a bit. (Normally I'd just read out the bit to anyone in the room, but there's no one currently in the room, so you'll have to suffer instead)
( But I will put it under a cut at least )