The Equations of Love (1990)
“At night in her room she pencilled tentative answers to advertisements, licking the pencil stub. She was afraid of making mistakes for she had had no occasion to write letters and did not know what to say. She expressed herself with rather more ease than she would have done seven years ago, and was able to regard her efforts more critically. She picked Mrs. Butler’s torn-up correspondence out of the wastepaper baskets and scrutinized the letter-endings. “Yours” … “Always your loving …” “Yours s...incerely” … “Respectfully” … “truly” … “devotedly” … Of the contents of the letters she cared nothing, but – as in life – she took what she needed, and left the rest. One night, as Eleanor peacefully slept, and Major and Mrs. Butler sat reading downstairs, unaware that their foundations were crumbling, Lilly wrote with care “DEAR SIR “For nearly seven years I have been housekeeper in a big country house with polished floors. I do all the cooking and washing and housework.MoreLess
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