An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (2002)
“The college was surely too distractingly pretty to be conducive to serious study. She wasn’t sure, either, whether she approved of the obtrusive femininity of its white brick, the mannered prettiness of the shallow pools where the goldfish slipped like blood-red shadows between the water lilies, its artfully planted saplings. She concentrated on her criticism of the building; it helped to prevent her being intimidated.
She hadn’t called at the Lodge to ask for Miss Tilling, afraid that she migh...t be asked her business or refused admission; it seemed prudent just to walk in and chance to luck. Luck was with her. After two fruitless enquiries for Sophia Tilling’s room, a hurrying student called back at her: “She doesn’t live in college but she’s sitting on the grass over there with her brother.”
Cordelia walked out of the shadow of the court into bright sunlight and over turf as soft as moss towards the little group. There were four of them, stretched out on the warm-smelling grass.MoreLess
She hadn’t called at the Lodge to ask for Miss Tilling, afraid that she migh...t be asked her business or refused admission; it seemed prudent just to walk in and chance to luck. Luck was with her. After two fruitless enquiries for Sophia Tilling’s room, a hurrying student called back at her: “She doesn’t live in college but she’s sitting on the grass over there with her brother.”
Cordelia walked out of the shadow of the court into bright sunlight and over turf as soft as moss towards the little group. There were four of them, stretched out on the warm-smelling grass.MoreLess
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