charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
Real life seems to have no plots.
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.