The Enchanted April, Part 1 of 15
The Sleepy Bookshelf
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The Shy Mrs Wilkins
Mrs Wilkins was reading about the medieval castle and the wisteria. Mrs Arbeth not had not yet to her knowledge set eyes on the shabby, lank loosely put together figure sitting opposite her. Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk? She thought. How stupid not to be able to speak to her. Her eyes were on the very part of the paper. Was she too picturing what it would be like. The colour. The fragrance. The soft lapping of the seam among little hot rocks. Fragrance. Light. Seam. Instead of shafts brie avenue and the wet omn
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