Quotes from Angela Margaret Thirkell

Also he liked his mother very much, and sometimes hugged her to strangulation point, till she had to beg for mercy.

But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.

The monthly nurse, a delightful young woman called Nurse Chiffinch, was seated starchily in a deck chair, crocheting a mauve bed jacket. Such was her tact that she always sat far enough from her employers to make conversation difficult, though near enough to make it impossible for them to talk privately.

No," said Adrian, "but I met Johns at a lunch not long afterwards and he was still weak from the effects. He said he had never been given so much advice about the publishing trade in his life. I rather gathered that Tony had offered to go into partnership with him and show him how the business ought to be run.

And mind you," said Dr. Ford, "I'm only doing this to please your mother and Lord Stoke. If you were my child I'd let you fester and gangrene, and serve you right. Did I or did I not tell you not to go near Stokey Hole?