Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. - Agatha Christie

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express