“Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.”
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.