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she wondered why it had never occurred to her before that you cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.
“Do, darling,” said Teresa impenitently. “That’ll be just your line. As a matter of fact,” she added, “I very much doubt whether people like Neish and Agnes ever think at all. They just feel.” “Oh, no,” said Mrs. Miniver. “They do both, I’m certain. But the trouble is, they keep the two processes entirely separate. They’ve never learnt to think with their hearts or feel with their minds.”
Oh, Lord, thought Mrs. Miniver, we’re off again; and, anyway, I’m sick and tired of being offered nothing but that same old choice. Left wing … Right wing … it’s so limited; why doesn’t it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?
