They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #5)

by Agatha Christie

“Why you have such a poor idea of human nature, I can’t think—living in that sweet peaceful village of yours, so old world and pure.” “You have never lived in a village, Ruth. The things that go on in a pure peaceful village would probably surprise you.”

Everyone went mad on educating the lower classes. Well, that’s passed. Soon, I expect, the fashionable thing to do will be not to educate your children, preserve their illiteracy carefully until they’re eighteen.

On the whole it was rather an exhausting day. Enthusiasm in itself can be extremely wearing, Miss Marple thought.