i have always thought she missed her true vocation in life ; she could easily have gone on to be a lion tamer or tank commander or some such , and though it would be unnecessarily cruel of me to say that edith is no oil painting , i dont think it is beyond the realms of possibility that if st. disinfectants church had ever lost one if its gargoyles over the passing years , edith moseley could have been called upon to sit up there on one of those crumbling ledges as a more than adequate replacement .