Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
Stella GibbonsWell, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.
Stella GibbonsFlora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
Stella GibbonsShe liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
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