" I don’t much like crowds. You ought to count yourself lucky—when I took Vivien round to show her the restored rooms a couple of years ago, we had to hide in a cupboard for twenty minutes.” Lucky Vivien, I almost said, but I caught myself in time. Instead I asked him, tongue in cheek, “There’s a name for that, isn’t there? A pathological fear of crowds?” He nodded. “Privacy. "

― Susanna Kearsley , Mariana