““It was very different in the country (she used to live in Ayrshire) it was a recognised thing to call for a newcomer, but things are changed now. ‘And here am I singing the Old Folk’s Litany already,’ she adds with a twinkle in her eye, ‘and you’ll be thinking Mrs. Loudon is like the other folks and a bit of a nuisance forbye. But it does seem to me that the people I used to know were more human and wise-like. There was surely less struggle for money and less running after the great ones who aren’t so very great after all’s said and done. There was less vulgarity and we were content with simpler pleasures.””
