Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Chapter 16: Transcriber's note:

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About This Book

The story follows life in an ageing country house where portraits, family lore and rural surroundings shape everyday interactions. A young woman's preparations for an important dinner revive household rituals while a reserved visitor and a reflective relation confront resemblances between painted ancestors and living faces. Social routines, music and conversation expose tensions of pride, attraction and propriety as characters balance private feeling against inherited expectations, and small domestic events gradually reveal shifting alliances and subtle personal resolutions.

Transcriber's note:

In general every effort has been made to replicate the original text as faithfully as possible, including some instances of no longer standard spelling. However, obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Hyphenation has been standardized. The following changes were made to repair apparently typographical errors (in both cases, the letter 't' was missing although a space had been left for it):

p. 131 "My grandfather is an importan man" 'importan ' changed to 'important'
p. 274 "he could not realise tha his" 'tha ' changed to 'that'