Dating : ‘I have never been to Scotland, and I never will,’ said Wilhelmina.

‘I have never been to Scotland, and I never will,’ said Wilhelmina. ‘There was once a wall between us, and the point of a wall is either to keep something out or to keep something in. In this case, Hadrian’s wall was built to keep English decency in and Scottish barbarity out. It is a line which I refuse to cross.’

‘Well,’ said Marigold, ‘I would tend to agree with everything you just said. My father is Scottish, however, and I’m rather forced to, if not like the place, then at very least to suffer it. I’m going there tomorrow.’

‘God help you, is all I can say,’ said Wilhelmina.

‘You shouldn’t like to come then?’

‘I would rather boil my head.’