The Girl in the Shiny Boots
Richard Wollheim: Adolescence, 20 May 2004
“... the opera together, and Wilfred slept, which he was allowed to do until he snored, and Muriel and Eric talked, and talked, and talked. When Eric died, his place was taken, and the flame of impossible love kept burning, by Gerry, who had been British minister in a small country, and was invariably accompanied by a ... ”