Note rt Music: successor in Miss Lehman book. With simplicity and she describes the dull, monotonous Jife in an industrial town in th north of England, Two middle-aged, provincial married couples are described as they drag out, their Krab existence. 'A couple of slip shod creatures,' Grace describes herself and her blundering, kindly. husband. She realizes the state of lassitude into which they have sunk and felt that nothing mattered, nothing would happen again.'
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Then her friend Norah married to the shy, penniless professor with her two boys, living on the memories of the love of her youth and allowing herself to be sunk in the dull round of monotony as well.
The town is awakened by two young people, Hugh and his sister Clare. "Hugh, the nephew of the owner of the returned from years of wandering in India and South America, for a glimpse of England and his sister Clare, to take the place of the old man's sons, Jost in the war,—finds the place irksome and lonely. His sister, young is spite of her years, be! describes upon her visit to the Town:
No one eas auch good value, ne coe looked so well; He felt proud und Siiafied, going about with her. She ever interfered with him. Hier rife fen lived apart and unknown to i Fivven months out of Mabey had it ever sctarred call mystery what -ncither vexed sever grew io know each thet better, ho Might have saldy had about ber. She ad, not poor, not bored, not aged altered 8 hie had vaguely, uncomfortably feared she aight the abolition during his absence hrostand be had scarcely known. She bad written to him: "I have decided leave George. To complicated for etter, 1 explain when I seo you No divorce By the time got home the new order was Cctabliched she never spoke of im, umeur of the affair had. ceased gndon. she bad "adio Hitle house ina mews, and some mild hale-time occupation, deeseat= Sng Jamp-shades of selling 61d furni-tate or painted wastepaper baskets (he forgot. precisely. what) those smart new little shops: She had a fest small car and went away for week ends, 'Thes young people, without any' more than flecting contact with the respectable, story foursome, stir them up to realization of their sta and they make vain efforts to win back the youth and romance that
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