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.

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.

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