Mother and Daughter

hat she should let such a hooked fish slip out of her hands! that she should allow such a person to turn her down!

lavish, elvish and weak,

wring the neck of the man

Mrs Bodoin had the health and muscular equipment of the Sphinx.

But she was earning them

Virginia had long thrown parental authority to the winds

more like a married couple than mother and daughter.

That is already something.