Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom Quotes

“The young are ever so; unable to believe that the decrepitude before it was ever firm young flesh or that they themselves will ever crumble.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

“That’s a shocking admission.’ I was teasing. One”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

“You don’t introduce women to men, Lady Stott. You present men to women.’ ‘Is that right?’ she said. ‘Even a detective such as yourself and a lawyer like him?’ ‘Even a duke and a shop girl,’ I said. ‘The only male person I have ever been presented to in my life was His Majesty the King.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

“Oh, I knew very well,’ I said, thinking back to Flasher, my childhood terrier, and the large ginger cat which used to live in the kitchen and whose death had left our cook sobbing and shaking in her Windsor chair for two days while the family dined off ham sandwiches and apples. Flasher’s death had been the end of childhood for me and even that was as nothing compared with the loss of Bunty. For Bunty, quite simply, was the dog of my life.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

“And you have been reading the Scotsman every day for twenty years.’ I did not disabuse him. In fact, I had been having the Scotsman laid on a table in my sitting room for twenty years but I do not think I had ever glanced at the thing.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

“His aptitude for ignoring unpleasantnesses rivalled that of my grandmother Leston; and she had lived for ten years in India without seeing a single shoeless child.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom