Excellent Women - Barbara Pym, Alexander McCall Smith

I was punctual at the restaurant and I had been waiting nearly ten minutes before Mrs Gray arrived.

"I´m so sorry," she smiled, and I smiled, and I heard myself murmuring politely that I had arrived too early, as if it were really my fault that she was late.

 

There are so many scenes with Mildred in which I would behave exactly the same way as she does (being the spinster in her mid thirties that I am ;D)