" But you've lost so much weight. You've lost stones and stones. Little person! Tiny person! How did you do it?'
'Well, it's not all that much and I ...' She didn't get an inning.
'But you're a tiny person; you used to be a huge, huge person. Remember those great jowls you had? Real jowls, they were darling, and look at you now. A little person. How super. No jowls. Don't ever let it creep on again, will you?'
I thought about it for a long time. Would the little person, the tiny jowl-less person like all this praise? Was it the reward for the diet, the self-control, the exercise? Or might she resent the spotlight and the attention of 30 people beaming on her? "

― Maeve Binchy , Maeve's Times