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Mrs Marshall was not a very happy woreat

politician and spent s He never infor, and if he

had told her, she would neither have understood nor cared anything

about it At Great Oakhurst she heard everything and took an

interest in it, and she often wished with all her heart that the

subject which occupied Marshall's thoughts was not Chartish pasture that lay at

the bottoood and kind to her, and she

never iht to be more She was

sure that at Great Oakhurst she would have been quite comfortable

with him but somehow, in London, it was different 'I don't kno

it is,' she said one day, 'the sort of husband as does for the

country doesn't do for London'

At Great Oakhurst, where the doors were always open into the yard and

the garden, where every house was merely a covered bit of the open

space, where people were always in and out, and women never sat down,

except to their , it was

really not necessary, as Mrs Caffyn observed, that husband and wife