Margaret’s Reviews > The Soul of Kindness > Status Update

"The grandmothers chattered, drank champagne, and peeped at Ba's birthday cards on the chimney-piece. They were seemly cards, with pictures of bluebell glades and kittens. There were no sick barbs, for she was no longer of the age when there could be rallying jokes about birthdays, and the number of them. She was to be comforted now, with pretty scenes and kind little verses set out in curly print."