Mr Sampson

In the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Mr Sampson is the oldest resident of St. Mary Mead. He claims to be ninety-six, but his relatives insist that he is eighty-six. He attends Marina Gregg's garden fête, and looks at the new swimming pool. He gives it his highest praise, saying that there will be "a lot of wickedness" there, with naked men and women drinking and smoking "what they call in the papers them reefers". He takes enormous pleasure in saying this.