In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...

VVhy vvithdravveſt thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy boſome. A quotation from Psalm 74:11 of the Bible.

It was rude in the extreme to act the way he did at the funeral.

James may not have known women in the biblical sense; but had Adams read the novels with care, he would have been agreeably surprised by the keen insights on the feminine psyche displayed there.