So OH’s dad went up and down the station asking strangers if they had bags for life so Jack could buy a load of books? IIRC Harold’s family also carried said books around with them until they got back to the place they were staying. Now I’m only basing this on my own family but I can imagine them being kind of polite but about all that while it was going on, but for ever more she’d be known as that annoying woman who made us carry the heavy books all day. She’d pass into family lore, to be brought up when everyone was a bit drunk at Christmas as the punchline to which one of us siblings had had the worst or most embarrassing partner.