Status Updates From Mrs. Bridge: A Novel

Mrs Bridge said she judged people by their shoes and by their manners at the table. If someone wore shoes with run-over heels, or shoes that hadn’t been shined for a long time, or shoes with broken laces, you could be pretty sure this person would be slovenly in other things as well.

I'm going to have to go right to Mr. Bridge when I finish.

'She had been brought up to believe without question that when a woman married she was married for the rest of her life and was meant to remain with her husband wherever he was, and under all circumstances, unless he directed her otherwise.'

'That evening she instructed Carolyn. "You should say the cleaning 'woman'. A lady is someone like Mrs Arlen or Mrs Montgomery."'