'Talk through the chink of a wall'

Thanks to all who entered the competition from last month's CM. We asked you "What is the Pyramus and Thisbe club, and how did it get its name?" Congratulations to Chris Guest, who was first out of the hat with the correct answer. He wins a copy of Paul Chynoweth's book The Party Wall Casebook. However, honourable mention must go to Chris Jennings, who submitted a breathtakingly thorough entry. We'll let him have the last word:

The Pyramus and Thisbe Club is the name of the Party Wall Surveyors' organisation that offers training on the Party Wall (etc) Act and a list of competent surveyors.

The name originates from the rude mechanicals' play within a play in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, told 1500 years previously by the poet Ovid, who got it from the Greeks, who got it from the near east. According to Ovid, the couple grew up in Babylon in adjoining houses and fell in love against their parents' will.

By night the lovers held desperate conversations through a crack in the wall between the houses.