An ingrown toenail and a benign cyst

I was reading a little more of the Graham Greene book this morning on my way to the doctor's surgery—a bulk-billing one no less— when I came across this:

"... Mrs Montgmery was satisfactorily widowed..."

What a wonderful turn of phrase. All very straight-forward and unabashed and, well, old fashioned. And he wrote it in 1979.