Peacock Emporium
“She had been sorting through the old bureau in the sitting room, determined to put all those sepia-tinted photographs into an album, hopefully before the men came in, but suddenly it was getting on for half past five. She had found herself inanimate on the small sofa, absorbed in images of her earlier self, pictures she had not lingered over for years: clinging to Douglas’s arm at various social functions, posing self-consciously in frocks, proudly holding newborn babies, and then, as they got ...older, looking increasingly less confident, her smile perhaps a little more painted on with each year. Perhaps she was being too hard on herself. Or perhaps she was being sentimental, projecting on to herself emotions she felt swamped by now.Suzanna had been an easy child. When Vivi considered the upheaval of her daughter’s early years, and her own lack of experience as a mother, it amazed her that they had muddled through as well as they had. Suzanna’s childhood had never been the problem: it was puberty, when those gawky, elongated limbs achieved a certain sylph-like elegance, when those near-Slavic cheekbones had started highlighting the previously hidden planes of her face, that a distant echo had patently disturbed Douglas’s peace of mind.MoreLess
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