It is high summer in Paradise. Laura Fenton takes toast, post, and the new Country Life out to the garden. Her spaniels stalk the white doves as the smell of newly mown grass mingles with the scent of old blush roses on the brick wall. She feeds the ...
After being satisfied for a time caring for her husband's children from a previous marriage, Elfie discovers it is no longer enough, but when she approaches her husband Hugh, who is twenty years her senior, about having a child of her own, he wavers....