It is a very pretty name, Mma. I should like to be called Poppy. The compliment drew a smile. I used to be very embarrassed about it, said Poppy. I used to try to hide my name from people. I thought it was a very silly name. Mma Ramotswe shook her head. There was nothing embarrassing about the name Poppy, but there was no telling what names people would find embarrassing.

Nor a drop of rain nor even the wind stirring the most slightsome leaf.

After working all night, she had circles under her eyes.

Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety.