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“‘After all,’ said Mrs Laidlaw comfortably, ‘cleverness isn’t everything. My great desire always was to be able to stand up and address a great audience, and it’s all I can do to stumble out a prayer at a missionary meeting, so I’ve just had to content myself with my success as a maker of pastry’” (245).

Chapter 17 where Mrs Laidlaw and Eliza are at their relatives’ house in Hampstead is hilarious!

This book is wonderfully relatable. I loved the chapter I just read where Eliza and her mother visit the oldest brother Jim at Oxford and he gets worn out showing them the sights and trying to study. 😆