old-mother

Updated: July 5, 2026

I would not go out at all, and I thanked her. It was much easier to write sweet things to her than to Robert. When I was alone I could not eat. Véronique came in to try and persuade me. I looked so very pale, she said, she feared I had taken cold. She was in one of her "old-mother" moods, when she drops the third person sometimes, and calls me "mon enfant."

Elinor Glyn - Red Hair