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1 " ...And where's Margaret Pier? I know she's not dead, even if she's almost as old as I am and twice as stubborn.""She said she'd never set foot inside this house again. Not after what you said the last time.""Did I say something dreadful?""You said blind Republicanism like hers was an inherited social disease, like syphilis. You said it. I heard you myself. "
― , The Listener and Other Stories
2 " Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner. "
