Susan in NC’s Reviews > Some Die Eloquent > Status Update

“The Head laid the revised timetable back on her desk. No … Beatrice Wansdyke wouldn’t have minded dying in harness, her duty done, her old friend Hilda Collins her chief mourner. She’d nursed her aged parents, kept her temper and her peace over the years with the silly, snobbish, brainless creature whom her brother’s son had married, and done what she could for her dead sister’s children.”