butter-spoiler

Updated: May 3, 2025

It's a shame for her to be buying new cushions when her churn's an old butter-spoiler I wouldn't use if I was dead Arthur, you're there with her, and you can make her do what I say." But Arthur could not, any more than Joanna, make Ellen do what she did not want. He had always been a mild-mannered man, and he found Ellen, in her different way, quite as difficult to stand up to as her sister.

Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden