the ring vanishes again. when a supposed insurance agent (a ridiculous character with a lisp, apparently due to recent dental work?!) shows up at the house and wants to ask questions, the servants feel they are being accused of theft. she goes away, assuming when she returns the ring will have reappeared. edith finds the ring and suggests to raunce to sell it for what it’s worth, for their future together, but he refuses and makes her put it back where she found it (between some cushions). she apparently has a habit of misplacing valuables, and the servants are slightly annoyed. The household is just recovering from the old butler’s death when mrs tennant misplaces a sapphire cluster ring. this is a tradition the previous butler practised, and it seems to raunce only fair that he should so augment his salary.
when edith becomes engaged to charles, kate panics and decides that paddy ‘needs’ her since she cannot bear the thought of being alone.Ĭharles raunce fiddles with the books he is in charge of and regularly puts some money aside for himself (and later his wife-to-be) without the lady of the house noticing. they laugh, cry, shriek, phantasize about romance, and generally act stereotypically girly. 🙂Įdith and kate share a bed and giggle much. most of it amounts to very little being said – now, this may well be read as social commentary. there isn’t really much action, just talk and talk and more talk. The novel is set in ireland, in the country, sometime during ww2. captain davenport – who likes fishing and mrs.tennant’s daughter-in-law who has an affair with tennant – the lady of the house, a wealthy british widow kate – edith’s friend and fellow servant girl.
one of them has its neck broken by a little boy, one of the more exciting things that happen in this story. the peacock on the cover is there for a reason – the first novel, loving, has lots of peacocks in it. So… this book is something i read for my modernism class for this summer: loving living party going by henry green.
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