England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; English fiction -- 20th century; Families -- Fiction; Spouses -- Fiction
The entrance faced the moors; and so did the two windows of the large
living-room kitchen; West was a fair-sized scullery kitchen. Behind
the living-room was a much smaller one, with gorse-bushes choking the
view.... “These’ll have to be rooted up and cleared away,” said Doug.
Mr. Wenn glanced at him sharply: “The sort I let it tu won’t object
tu a bit o’ stiffish digging. It’s only fit for labourers. Not for
gentlefolk, o’ course.”
Doug and Ursula said nothing. They went upstairs. A large double
bedroom looked onto the moors; leading from it was a roomy box-room
over the scullery--“My dressing-room,” murmured Doug. Along the short
passage ... a door flung open....
[III]
A SMALL room with irregular corners, a dipping roof, and two stark
windows full of the sea. Ursula’s heart gave a queer sort of twist when
she saw it. It was her own room, of which she had been robbed years
and years ago--her own room; only with the outlook metamorphosed from
a blank wall, to the tumbling shining enchantment of space and green
water beyond, and sunshine which slipped about the bare floor. Once
again she was whipped by the old feeling of high secret expectation....
In here something significant was to happen to her--to her alone.
In the room ... her room ... loving it, she took possession.
[IV]
“----for a spare-room, in case we want to put somebody up for a few
nights,” finished Doug.
Wenn had followed them up the stairs: “I’m a blunt man, sir, and when
there’s business to be talked, I like to be plain and straightforward
about it, and get it over. That’s my way. I don’t mind saying that I
like you, and if you was really thinking of settling down at Bella
Vista----”
“We mean to settle down here,” said Ursula, breaking it to him.
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