playing-at-housewifely

Updated: May 1, 2025

Having nothing better to do that first afternoon, Agnes had gone up to her husband's dressing-room in order to look over his summer clothes before sending them to the cleaner. In her careful, playing-at-housewifely fashion, she had turned out the pockets of his cricketing coat.

Marie Belloc Lowndes - Studies in love and in terror