Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
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 GibbonsThere are some things (like first love and oneโs first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Stella GibbonsThe education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Stella Gibbons