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By far, her most well known book. I’ve only read the first 5 or so pages, but my favorite quote so far [p. 3] is
“He himself had taken a plunge at daylight. That was why the morning seemed long to him. “You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife as a valuable piece of personal property which had suffered some damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands and surveyed them critically, drawing her lawn sleeves above the wrists. “
There were many beautiful and descriptive paragraphs I could have chosen from, but I thought this paragraph was the biggest clue so far as to how the way things would play out in this book. There was one other passage im dying to mention thought, just because I love the contrast [p.2]
“She was a fresh, pretty woman, clad always in white with elbow sleeves. Her starched skirts crinkled as she came and went. Farther down, before one of the cottages, a lady in black was walking demurely up and down, telling her beads.”
It’s so easy to see the woman in short sleeves and white and the smooth lady in black the background. I fall in love with pictures like this.
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