"'Perhaps you will join us one day,' said Mrs. Beltane, in the rather perfunctory tone in which social invitations not meant to be accepted are sometimes issued, and to which the only suitable reply is a murmur." Barbara Pym, No Fond Return of Love Continue reading Almanac: Barbara Pym on social evasiveness at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM on June 11, 2020