" Well, you asked me,” said Ash. “I mean—well—you asked me, didn’t you? I wouldn’t have read them but there wasn’t anything else to read—it was in hospital, you see.” “Most people like my books,” said Miss Walters faintly. “Most people are saps,” said Ash. "

― D.E. Stevenson , The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)