But when he arrives backinLondon on a stretcher, after a "terseexchangeofincivilities", Anne sweeps past him in the hall of their flatto begina holiday in thesouth of France.
They also travelled to relatively prosperous communities - Salisbury and Trowbridge - and recorded how "high levels of superficial civility... often hid deeper, covert incivilities" such as domestic violence, racism and prejudice against younger residents.