Hangman's Curfew Quotes

“It is a humiliating fact that at nineteen the keenest sorrows have a habit of yielding, with uncanny readiness, to the soothing effects of excitement and a change of scene. It is a sound instinct, after all, which takes the rejected lover to the wilds to shoot hippopotami and lions. Even the female of the species—not of hippopotami and lions—can obtain a considerable amount of balm from driving along the Great North Road at eighty miles an hour.”
― Gladys Mitchell, Hangman's Curfew

“Mrs. Bradley herself kept out of the invalid’s way for almost the whole of the fortnight. This was partly for the invalid’s sake, but largely for her own.”
― Gladys Mitchell, Hangman's Curfew