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The comfort that the two of them experience in their talk at the end of the book is Lady Slane’s last bit of happiness on the earthly plane, and would seem a fitting close to a remarkable life — frustrated and then reclaimed after hearts less stout would have proclaimed it too late. The nature of the story is such that it requires a deft touch to handle delicate situations, and Miss Sackville-West has proven herself equal to the task.

But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions.

first edition, near fine light green cloth with touch of sun at top edge, this copy with a dustjacket in NEAR FINE condition with a minuscule spot on spine and slender loss at tip of spine; we seldom see a copy in such nice condition as this jacket is very prone to sun damage- it has been well cared for since the prior owner acquired it; book itself it very crisp having hardly been read; jacket by TREKKIE RITCHIE of course; Woolmer 270; Ravenscroft-Hulme A.

She moves to Hampstead, regarded by her children as an outpost of London, and even more shocking, she takes the Tube. FitzGeorge explains himself and makes cogent observations about her life and, really, about the lives of many talented women, two of which will give the flavor of his thinking, doubtless the mirror image of VSW's. They want to organise their widowed mother's life but Lady Slane has her own ideas and creates her own new life where she has always wanted to be and acquires new friends, eccentric and elderly.