Andrew’s Reviews > A Question of Upbringing > Status Update

There are certain people who seem inextricably linked in life; so that meeting one acquaintance in the street means that a letter, without fail, will arrive in a day or two from an associate involuntarily harnessed to him, or her, in time;

This ideal conception - that one should have an aim in life - had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem.

Being in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests.

"Bloody fool. He's so wet you could shoot snipe off him."