I don't usually share quotes from my writing, especially not from early drafts, but I snort-laughed as I wrote this line, and then I read it aloud to my eldest and she laughed as well, which means I can't NOT share it.
"Sisters presumably always had their squabbles, but Len thought Miss Whitney must have been close to a saint to have lived for so many years with Miss Ellie without hitting her over the head with a cricket bat."
"Sisters presumably always had their squabbles, but Len thought Miss Whitney must have been close to a saint to have lived for so many years with Miss Ellie without hitting her over the head with a cricket bat."