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<DIV>I feel I want to shake people who will *not* believe what life was like a
century ago, even tho’ I try to explain how different it was . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>For example, if someone had said to you: Come to tea; my doctor will be
there. And you turned up, and the doctor was – a woman – you would have
felt resentful that you had not been told in advance, even tho’ you had no
objection to women doctors.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, I just came across a ref. to Thornton’s, the Estate Agents in
Lewes, which VW mentions in Jan. 1924 (D2 282 & n2). But my ref. is in
the novelist Mrs Dudeney’s diaries, for 1 Jan. 1935: “Went in to Thorntons about
letting The Old Poor House. The man *sat* down beside me! They have
no manners nowadays.”</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>