The adults in the family used commodes or ‘thunderboxes’ – European-style toilets on which one sat. The children and servants relieved themselves in the traditional Indian way at ground level. […] [W]hen running water was introduced, the thunderboxes became flushable.

A girl's got to think on her future.

Is Janette Lisle Miss Lisle, Walter? Yes, Vinnie; the eldest Miss Lisle. Janette is her name. Very pretty name, don't you think?

It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]