“I shall hate those Miss Alans!” Mrs. Honeychurch cried. “Just because they’re old and silly one’s expected to say ‘How sweet!’ I hate their ‘if’-ing and ‘but’-ing and ‘and’-ing.
Dude, now that I know Mrs Honeychurch is esteemed thanks to community misunderstanding, her exclusion of these widowed ladies is even less excusable. Maybe she fears they will detect her common origins? Maybe she's threatened
