I have now run out of Mrs Bradley novels and these are my last collected quotes from them.

[cimorene]

• "[S]o speak rapidly, intelligibly, and to the point."



• [...W]hom she diagonsed as always ready for his little bit of fun and so fresh that he'd slip off the ice



• "She's such a prattling, ingenuous little headache that she'd have babbled it out at once."



• "He is a callow, conceited, schoolboyish youth with no head for heights and a distressing tendency to quote Neitzsche in the original German. This surely can't endear him to any woman, particularly if she understands German, Neitzsche being fundamentally unsound as regards our sex."



• "[T]oo many brains don't become a young policeman. They come between him and his duty, and, in the end, are a snare and a delusion to a conscientious man. He will go much further without them."