Commonplace Book

'"Well, Nance," said Mrs. Bode, "I remember you the heroine of a like occasion, as if it were yesterday."

"People who remember things, always remember them as if they were yesterday," said Cassie. "I remember it as if it were twenty-six years ago."

"Miss Jekyll's simple unflinchingness!" said Beatrice, with a smile.'

from A House and Its Head by I. Compton-Burnett (Chapter XI)