Miss Clovis Quotes

“Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“Esther Clovis might not be much of a tea-maker but she had considerable organizing ability and knew how to act in a crisis, as at this moment, confronted with the anthropologists who would not go.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels