with no prospect of her life getting anything but worse’ (Afterword)
'It seems to reside in a curious inconstancy or inconsistency
She reared her own hens in yards and poultry-houses built to her specification
ignore: Mollie Panter Downes's wife wishing her husband's leave had not been deferred because she is too weary to say goodbye to him all over again
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The Woman Novelist and Other Stories Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper with no prospect of herPREFACE BY CLAIRE GARDNER 168pp ISBN 9781903155547 'At twelve Madeleine returned to the house Wykham, in his new dark grey flannel suit, was standing up reading aloud the label on a sherry bottle. "I couldn't find the brown glasses, darling," he said to Madeleine, "so I've used those." He pointed to a brandy glass on the spinet. With dismay, she saw that a ring of sherry had formed on the polished wood, showing white. Could it be removed? she