‘Oh, this is a most reputable and old-established business,’ said Mr Bason. ‘They tell me that Queen Mary often used to pop in — in the old days, of course.’
‘That does sound reassuring,’ I said. ‘Any connection with royalty is that, don’t you think?’
‘With our royal family certainly,’ Mr Bason agreed, ‘though some one could mention wouldn’t inspire quite the same confidence.’
— A Glass of Blessings, chapter twenty one
‘No, it couldn’t have been me,’ I said. ‘Why did you think it might be?’
‘Oh I don’t know, and I see now that it couldn’t have been you. This lady was asking for the times for the Imposition of Ashes, and you already knew the times, of course. She had a deep very cultured voice.’
A deep very cultured voice asking for the times for the Imposition of Ashes — I wondered if I should have like to think of myself like that. It seemed an ideal to aim at for Lent. I felt in a way that I had already fallen short but not being that woman.
— A Glass of Blessings, chapter twelve
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