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He didn’t even own a coffin, let alone sleep in one; there simply wasn’t room to roll over, even in the newer, wider models, and anyway the mattresses were a complete joke and played merry hell with one’s back.
If he started behaving like that at his age it was only a short step to hiding in the cellar and hissing at people, and he’d spent enough time complaining about that sort of thing already.
“One thing I have found to hold true across the centuries,” said Varney, “is that people are willing to overlook all kinds of eccentricities if you present them with enough money.

