Word: spinsterhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well but bookishly. She tries her best to love him back, they are engaged; but a chance conversation with a married man shows her that it was Alf, for all his terrifying lovemaking, whom she really loved. Alf was too wild, Heloma is too tame: she takes up spinsterhood...
...mother's darling from infancy. They quarrel, however, almost continuously. The mother is a frightful old woman, whose one fear is that her son will marry and thus get away from her. Eventually, a middle-aged man, he does marry, but his wife, already slightly acidified from prolonged spinsterhood, is at first not quite docile enough for him. Fernand sides with his mother against her; the old woman is delighted. One night after a miscarriage his wife dies alone, and Fernand changes sides again. But when, years later, his old mother finally allows Death to take her from...