QUOTE : His smile continued as he remembered a story he had once heard concerning Anthony Trollope the novelist. Trollope was crossing the Atlantic at the time and had overheard two fellow passengers discussing the last published installment of one of his novels. ‘Very good,’ one man had declared. ‘But he ought to kill off that tiresome old woman.’ With a broad smile the novelist had addressed them: ‘Gentlemen, I am much obliged to you! I will go and kill her immediately!