If I had been told after the event that that had been done, I cannot think that I would have remained as placid as she has".
She has remained as engaged as ever: she continues to be a passionate crusader against censorship, and has turned her pen to Aids, the Middle East, global poverty.
At some point during this period, she was laid up as part of a reserve fleet, in which she remained as late as 1939.
"Branchville has remained as is for many years," she said.
By remaining as shrewd as she is witty, and by putting more of herself back in the picture.
"I want £500 and legal aid," he instructed her, remaining, as far as she was concerned, her "handsome laughing son", who had only committed the murders when he was "mentally blacked out".
She has lost 19 games in six matches at the Open, with only the final remaining as she tries to win her fourth Open singles title, and her first since 2008.
One is from as far back as the '70's (it contains language not appropriate for public consumption), but both notes remain, as she does, a great inspiration for me.
Meanwhile, Caroline Lucas, the UK's only Green MP, represents both a party and constituency (Brighton Pavilion) that very much wants to hold a new referendum with an option to remain – as she also does personally.
The beefed-up police presence would remain "as long as necessary", she said on Europe-1 radio.
