I don't know any Prime Ministers or Archbishops, but I expect they are just the same as your father in home life." * * * * * "I daresay your father will be sorry when I'm gone.

People like your father are always very fond of someone who is dead, who has no longer any claim upon them: a mother or a sister, whom they did not take much trouble about when they were alive.
"Of course I am going to die first, but I sometimes used to think if your father died before me and if he were allowed to come back after death--such things do happen--I had a friend who saw a ghost once--whether he would be as vexed then at any little change as he is now.

You know, Magdalen, it has always been a cross to me that the writing-table in my sitting-room is away from the light.

My eyes were never strong.

I moved it near the window when I first came here, but your father was annoyed and had it put back where it is now, because his mother always had it there.