Daily Pym

‘You will hardly believe this, Miss — er — but I was sitting in the window this afternoon and as it was a fine day I had it open at the bottom, when I felt something drop into my lap. And do you know what it was?’ She turned and peered at me intently.

I said that I had no idea.

‘Unpleasantness,’ she said, almost triumphantly…

— Excellent Women, chapter sixteen