Camomile Lawn
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‘I was beginning to think you were allergic to me,’ he said grumpily.
‘Not that.’ Her emphasis was inadvertent.
‘So you feel something?’ he pressed her.
‘Terribly hungry. I couldn’t eat anything at the wake.’
‘All right, then, let’s go and find some oysters. There must be somewhere we can eat on our way.’
‘We have no way,’ she cried in pain. ‘We know nothing about each other. There’s an enormous forty-year gap.’ She turned to look at him again.
‘Then start the bloody car and let’s see what we can do about filling it,’ he yelled, losing patience.
Choking with sudden laughter, Sophy switched on the engine, wondering whether what she felt was real or just the whisky.
‘We risk making ourselves the object of ridicule,’ she said as she changed gear.
‘It’s a risk I am prepared to take.’ Oliver was content that she had used the plural.
Driving towards Helston Sophy uneasily remembered the old adage: ‘Be careful what you wish for, for it will surely come true.’
About the Author
Mary Wesley (1912–2002) was an English novelist. After she published her first novel at age seventy, her books sold more than three million copies, many of them becoming bestsellers. Her beloved books include Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, Second Fiddle, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative Experience, and Part of the Furniture, as well as a memoir, Part of the Scenery.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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