In their Wisdom by C.P. Snow

The Underwoods, mother and son, were in a taxi en route for Skelding's office – as they had been precisely two years before, to listen to the announcement of the will. The same week in October: the only difference was that it was now the morning, not the afternoon. This reflection of similarity appeared to give Julian esoteric pleasure.

‘Two years! ' he cried, as though the stately processes of the English law were something on which he ought to be personally congratulated.