" Marry!” said Miss Pole, with the decision that belonged to her character.  “I said marry! as you do; and I also said, ‘What a fool my lady is going to make of herself!’  I could have said ‘Madness!’ but I controlled myself, for it was in a public shop that I heard of it.  Where feminine delicacy is gone to, I don’t know!  You and I, Miss Matty, would have been ashamed to have known that our marriage was spoken of in a grocer’s shop, in the hearing of shopmen "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , The Complete Elizabeth Gaskell Collection