Quote of the Week: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

The Fountain Café (Proprietor Miss Gloria Adam) was all Tudor and horse brasses and local honey at sixpence more than anywhere else. Miss Adam herself dispensed the nastiest coffee south of Manchester and spoke of her customers as "My Friends." Miss Adam did not do business with friends, but simply robbed them, which somehow added to the illusion of genteel amateurism which Miss Adam was so anxious to preserve. Her origin was obscure, but she often spoke of her late father as "The Colonel." It was rumored among those of Miss Adam's friends who had paid dearly for their friendship that the colonelcy in question had been granted by the Salvation Army.

 - John Le Carré, Call for the Dead, p.27