Word: spinsterhood
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...that he perceives, before anyone else, that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage business failed...
...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...
...finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes funnier...
...Aunt Emily, his expectations of feeble old Uncle Percy. Overwhelmed by the thought of naming her two children Percy and Emily (the two little donkeys are trotting down there on the sand), Miss Alice bursts out laughing, and snatches the chance to run back to the shop and her spinsterhood...