Status Updates From Danger Point (Miss Silver, #4)

“ It was easy enough to understand, and the more she understood of it, the more it horrified her. People, human lives, herself and Dale, their children—all of no account in comparison with a great soulless barrack of a house, made uglier and more expensive by the successive sacrifices of each generation. It was a point of view, and she could understand it well enough, but it seemed to her quite mad, quite horrible.”