"Is it? I wonder how it compares to Hyde Park. Of course Grandmother would say it could never, but she is awfully set in her ways and I don't believe she thinks many good things come out of America." Her own mother was sometimes excepted from that generalisation, but only sometimes. Such was Violet Crawley's way and her opinions.

"The Gershwins are from New York as well. I've never heard any American composers, not of symphonies."