My maid Innocence. She's dead. — William Boyd

Can't you keep this bloody place tidy?"

There are so many hypochondriacs out here. I think Murray can spot them a mile off."

Actually I can't stand the man. Sanctimonious, Calvinistic, so-and-so. Totally unsympathetic — can't think why he became a doctor — hectoring, bullying — sort of moral storm-trooper.