'Changing at Inverness, he had tea at the Station Hotel, an experience which disturbed him.
*These people should be stuffed.
An elderly woman with soft red complexion and deerstalker matted with flies was talking to a man with a shepherd's crook half as high again as his high self. The large amount of floor space between them necessitated raised voices but not such shouts. They were discussing Geordie. Isobel had been over on Saturday and said he was much better.
"I heard he was worse," the man roared with moody aggression.
But the disagreement in no way marred the conversation which slid with ease into "Is Hughie taking Ardgower this year?" At one point the woman caught a hotel porter by the arm and whispered into his ear. He whispered back, cheerfully.
Lionel's distress deepened. Even domestic servants connived, it seemed, in the macabre.'
from Marching with April by Hugo Charteris (Chapter 2)
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