Excerpt from All Along the River, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel
The Raynhams’ dinner-party was a function to be anticipated with horror, and undergone with resignation. For the first week after the accept ance of the invitation the ceremony had seemed so far off that it could be talked about lightly, and even made an occasion for mirth - Allegra giving her own little sketch of What a dinner at Myrtle Lodge would be like - the drawing-room With its wealth of chair-backs and photograph albums, and the water-colour landscapes Which Mrs. Baynham had painted While she was at a finishing school at Plymouth, never having touching brush or pencil since - and Mrs. Bayn.
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