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I knew I could count on Angela Thirkell to cushion one from the typical airline passenger experience.

The cast:

Mr. Fanshawe... argu(ed) with his women pupils with logic and without rancour; while for his intellectual equals he used every weapon fair and unfair, and nourished feuds which overflowed into every learned journal in Europe.
"I certainly won't be Theseus," said Mr. Tebben. "I won't wear sandals and catch cold and wash my feet in that leaky basin of Margett's."
Mrs. Palmer... was entirely indifferent to moral temperatures.
If a god had granted Mr. Tebben one wish, and one only, it would have been that Modestine should for a day have human feet, and he hoofs, that justice might be done.
(Mrs. Dean:) "But I like losing it. When you don't like a thing, it is money in your pocket to know it."
Richard, very self-absorbed, and not at all sensitive except about himself
Mrs. Tebben, who attached the importance to a good degree that only a woman who has got a first herself can understand,
Mrs. Tebben, who could not bear to be outdone in arranging people's lives,
"...but I sometimes think (Laurence) has one skin more than some of us. It is lucky for him, and a little unlucky for people who care for him."

"August Folly"