Very central in Miss Miniver's universe were the Goopes. The Goopes werethe oddest little couple conceivable, following a fruitarian career uponan upper floor in Theobald's Road. They were childless and servantless,and they had reduced simple living to the finest of fine arts. Mr.Goopes, Ann Veronica gathered, was a mathematical tutor and visitedschools, and his wife wrote a weekly column in New Ideas upon vegetariancookery, vivisection, degeneration, the lacteal secretion, appendicitis,and the Higher... read more
