“I always found faith a great comfort. Otherwise it is too much, Phryne. Too cruel. To think that all the lads, all those boys, were just gone, blown out like candles. Don’t you agree?”
“I do,” said Phryne. “I like to think of them sitting down with all their mates to a serious drinking session, washed clean of mud and stench, all shiny and jolly. And if that doesn’t constitute heaven, I’m not going; though, of course, I might not have the option.”

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer

Phryne Fisher Book 20, Murder and Mendelssohn, ch. 7 (2013)
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Phryne talking with John Wilson about the Great War.