Well, yes, that too, but I was actually talking about the way she decrees her opinions as objective, "revealed truth." I'm almost sure (I refuse to be certain, even on this!) it's intentional on Elizabeth Peters' part, because it makes it so much fun when she gets taken down a peg.
I had an idea once for a story in which Amelia tries matchmaking some new acquaintances -- and the young woman turns out to be a German spy. The man confronts Mrs. Emerson with, "I suppose you suspected her from the first." Amelia is impaled upon Dilemma's horns: either she says she tried to pair them up because she wrongly suspected him, too, or she admits she was matchmaking because she didn't suspect the charming young lady, or she'll be forced to say that she tried to promote a marriage between an innocent man and an enemy agent.
I enjoyed the thought of her seeking to wriggle out of the blame while still attempting to preserve her reputation for all-but-infallible "understanding of the human heart."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I had an idea once for a story in which Amelia tries matchmaking some new acquaintances -- and the young woman turns out to be a German spy. The man confronts Mrs. Emerson with, "I suppose you suspected her from the first." Amelia is impaled upon Dilemma's horns: either she says she tried to pair them up because she wrongly suspected him, too, or she admits she was matchmaking because she didn't suspect the charming young lady, or she'll be forced to say that she tried to promote a marriage between an innocent man and an enemy agent.
I enjoyed the thought of her seeking to wriggle out of the blame while still attempting to preserve her reputation for all-but-infallible "understanding of the human heart."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.