‘“You don’t mean you’re going to divorce him?” Miss Spanner said with horror.
“That’s what he wants me to do.”
“Don’t do it,” Miss Spanner begged earnestly. “Don’t do it.”
“But what difference will it make? What difference, Agnes?”
“All the difference in the world,”
she replied in a hollow tone.’

A sharp and insightful observation of marriage and families, this layered story focuses on the neighbouring households of the Blacketts and the Frasers. The developing allegiance between the spirited Rosamund and the dutiful Bertha subtly exposes the realities of their marital experiences and desires.