“This boy is too besotted with America.” “I read American books because America is the future, Mummy. And remember that your husband was educated there.” “That was when only dullards went to school in America. American universities were considered to be at the same level as British secondary schools then. I did a lot of brushing-up on that man after I married him.” “Even though you left your things in his flat so that his other girlfriends would stay away?” “I’ve told you not to pay any attention to your uncle’s false stories.”
