Quotes from Gwen Moffat

He wore a black hat and a drooping moustache. His face was angular but the eyes, like the eyes of most cowhands, were bored. It occurred to Miss Pink, acknowledging the introductions with grace, that the bored eyes went with the myth, as an expression of contempt went with the gangster myth.

Gossip's not amusement, Uncle Zeke.' Arabella was grave. 'It's an essential part of social life.' 'Why?' 'It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.

With a tea tray on a chair beside her Miss Pink lay in a hot bath like a fox with vermin, only her mask projecting above the surface and surrounded, not by drowning fleas but a steaming cloud of Lanvin's Arpège.