"August Folly"

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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."