Only one technician in the hospital lab, in all we have encountered, uses it. […] Eric makes no complaints other than those directed at the vampires. Brenda and I do.

We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

But it was not these alone — it was his high moral and social principles, his liberal views in religion, unpretending piety, quick sensibility, sincerity and singleheartedness, his benevolence, candour, and ever cheerful spirit in prosperity and adversity, that peculiarly endeared him to his acquaintance, and enabled him to perform so acceptably and usefully, the difficult duties of his office, to two generations of parishioners.