Susan in NC’s Reviews > At Bertram's Hotel > Status Update

“ It meant no good. Miss Marple was sure of that. Miss Marple seldom gave anyone the benefit of the doubt; she invariably thought the worst, and nine times out of ten, so she insisted, she was right in so doing.”

“Would that account for that curious feeling of uneasiness she had had last night?…All those elderly people—really very much like those she remembered when she had stayed here fifty years ago. They had been natural then—but they weren’t very natural now. Elderly people nowadays weren’t like elderly people then—they had that worried harried look of domestic anxieties with which they are too tired to cope…”

“Inside, if this was the first time you had visited Bertram’s, you felt, almost with alarm, that you had reentered a vanished world. Time had gone back. You were in Edwardian England once more. There was, of course, central heating, but it was not apparent. As there had always been, in the big central lounge, there were two magnificent coal fires…There was a general appearance of rich red velvet and plushy cosiness.”

Off to a slow start, due to watching Olympic Games!