The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occured in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

- Cold Comfort Farm, (1932)Stella Gibbons