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The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of i

The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of it Mrs. Miniver had developed mental, moral, and physical indigestion….. [F]rom that moment on she resigned herself to a headache, and got it. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s

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