feasting with panthers

An indulgence in undisturbed assignations with grooms, telegraph boys, and other ‘renters.’

Wilde had ostensibly rented rooms as a hideaway in which he could write in peaceful seclusion from the distracting hubbub of family life in Tite Street, but in reality they had doubtless served as a lair for “feasting with panthers”.

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