altringham-his

Updated: May 26, 2025

Streff might, for the time, escape marriage; though she could guess the power of persuasion, family pressure, all the converging traditional influences he had so often ridiculed, yet, as she knew, had never completely thrown off.... Yes, those quiet invisible women at Altringham-his uncle's widow, his mother, the spinster sisters it was not impossible that, with tact and patience and the stupidest women could be tactful and patient on such occasions they might eventually persuade him that it was his duty, they might put just the right young loveliness in his way.... But meanwhile, now, at once, there were the married women.

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon