In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour