Word: tillie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long. The whole romance of it is that you know it must come to grief.' " The Crownes begin to come to grief when Tilli Van Tuyl persuades Norman to produce his play The Seven Dawns...
...covers his surprise with delight. Restraining a last minute eagerness to run away from the country wedding, Emily waits until she reaches London on the first night of her honeymoon to dodge Philip and go back to her brother. But at the house in Edwardes Square she finds Tilli whom William has married in his loneliness. So Emily goes back to Philip...
William and Tilli go down to Monk's Hall, where Trevor at his cousin's expense has organized an asylum for greedy and communistic artists. Tilli's purpose has a great deal to do with Trevor, whose casual desertion of her in London has moved her to the effort of retaliation. Monk's Hall is swept by the draughts of a thousand petty enmities, jealousies, hungers, hatreds. When William finds Trevor in his wife's bedroom he does the natural thing, the thing that was expected of him. He takes a shotgun and follows...