Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder, Capitalism and Social Progress (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 51. “It
was in the midst of a particularly witty piece of conversation that she
suddenly realized that she had just leant across and cut her companion’s dinner
up into small pieces.” [I can’t access the footnoted reference, but I assume it
is Jan Pahl and Raymond Pahl, Managers
and Their Wives: A Study of Career and Family Relationships in the Middle Class
(London: Allen Lane, 1971).]