“You see,’ Alice was very earnest, ‘if we’d lived in the slums and our mother had had fifteen children, and our father had got drunk and knocked us about, we should have been brought up against “real life.”’ ‘Daddy does drink – a bit.’ Anthony was hopeful. ‘It’s what makes him do card tricks after dinner.”

“You see,’ Alice was very earnest, ‘if we’d lived in the slums and our mother had had fifteen children, and our father had got drunk and knocked us about, we should have been brought up against “real life.”’ ‘Daddy does drink – a bit.’ Anthony was hopeful. ‘It’s what makes him do card tricks after dinner.”

— Elizabeth Eliot