A Start in Life (2015)
“All that remained to be done was to settle up with Rhoda and bid a suitably elegiac farewell to Humphrey. Then it would be time to leave the rue des Marronniers and proceed to her new quarters and her new life. The impossible had turned out to be possible. Hugh and Jill were going back to London; Jill was expecting a baby and Ruth was to have their flat.
Strange things had happened to her over the last few weeks. January had been icy and her journeys into the Balzac heartland uncomfortable. Sometimes, after spending the day alone in an unfamiliar town, she would sit in a café, with a cup of coffee in front of her, attracting attention from the bar because a solitary woman was an unusual sight and because such Parisian looseness was not customary; sometimes she was asked rather insistently for her money. She stayed in small hotels which seemed to have no other guests, and wandered about in the fine mist, trying to kill the day, living a reduced life, speaking to no one. The evenings we...re a problem which she solved, or perhaps failed to solve, by going to bed very early and reading her Balzac.MoreLess
Strange things had happened to her over the last few weeks. January had been icy and her journeys into the Balzac heartland uncomfortable. Sometimes, after spending the day alone in an unfamiliar town, she would sit in a café, with a cup of coffee in front of her, attracting attention from the bar because a solitary woman was an unusual sight and because such Parisian looseness was not customary; sometimes she was asked rather insistently for her money. She stayed in small hotels which seemed to have no other guests, and wandered about in the fine mist, trying to kill the day, living a reduced life, speaking to no one. The evenings we...re a problem which she solved, or perhaps failed to solve, by going to bed very early and reading her Balzac.MoreLess
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