Patricia Wentworth

Her name is Maud Silver. Louisa says she has solved many difficult cases besides being an extremely expert knitter.

Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting!

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.