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"‘Imperative,’ she corrected firmly.

‘—Imperative—did I really use such an arrogant word? I’m sorry."
This callback! I've really come around on David and I think he and Anne go well together, I'm just nervous about her job!

"But, at the back of her mind, Anne was thinking: ‘Everything has changed. People tell each other that they won’t let a proposal make any difference—that they’ll always be good friends. But it isn’t possible. It’s been lovely, this friendship, but it’s almost over. Like my stay here in the Lake District. Beautiful—beautiful—but passing.’" It's passages like this make me Mary Burchell

I 100% would read a series starring Miss Haskin as an amateur detective in low-stakes cases

'With the air of a man who has been kept from his favourite vice much too long, Mr. Jerome was immersing himself in letters and invoices, and beginning to look much less drawn and irritable.'