A Breed of Women (2012)
“It might have lasted longer, but a number of factors contributed to its collapse.
They had difficulty finding accommodation. After the episode at the hotel the Christmas before, this hardly came as a surprise to either of them. Harriet assumed that it wouldn’t have surprised Cousin Alice or her parents either, but then, like everything else, no one had discussed anything like that with her. In fact, Denny’s race had not been mentioned by anyone. This seemed quite extraordinary, when Harriet... considered it, as she did more and more often during the following months.
She sometimes wondered if she had imagined their wedding, people having said so little at the time. It even passed through her mind sometimes that her own inertia had led to all this. After all, she had simply followed a series of tacit assumptions that she would adopt a certain course of action.
Denny’s friend put them up on a creaky sofa in his three-roomed Auckland flat for a week.MoreLess
They had difficulty finding accommodation. After the episode at the hotel the Christmas before, this hardly came as a surprise to either of them. Harriet assumed that it wouldn’t have surprised Cousin Alice or her parents either, but then, like everything else, no one had discussed anything like that with her. In fact, Denny’s race had not been mentioned by anyone. This seemed quite extraordinary, when Harriet... considered it, as she did more and more often during the following months.
She sometimes wondered if she had imagined their wedding, people having said so little at the time. It even passed through her mind sometimes that her own inertia had led to all this. After all, she had simply followed a series of tacit assumptions that she would adopt a certain course of action.
Denny’s friend put them up on a creaky sofa in his three-roomed Auckland flat for a week.MoreLess
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