A Misalliance

A MisallianceBy: Anita Brookner After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to

she knows this is only the beginning

done having kids by thirty-five

Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts

When he finds her in a club devoted to the darker edges of desire

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the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together

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而且，明明已經大事不妙，長頸鹿還發表感想：

on the edge of your seat