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1 " She felt their hostility as she gave her message, and suddenly she feared them. They were ignorant, stupid, evil, but they stood for something that is colossally powerful—for conformity, for convention, for the narrow hypocrisy that ever apes its neighbours. They had behind them the power of countless ages and of countless dim unthinking souls. None so bitter as these worshippers of the normal, none so eager to persecute those who strayed from their fold or had never belonged to it. There was no gainsaying their power . . . Marcia felt it there in the little sunny drawing-room as she faced the four women. "
― Richmal Crompton ,