He used to laugh at Minnie's ideas.

It was Minnie got us to send Gordon to an English school and then to Cambridge, and take the hyphen.

Your father had many a laugh at the hyphen, and before the servants too! You see, Minnie went to a high-class school and made friends with the right people, and learned how things should be done.

She had always assurance, had Minnie.

The way she could order the waiters about in those grand London hotels! And then she married Egerton-Thomson.