"My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you!" exclaims a rejected suitor. The social interactions and dialogue are mostly quite implausible, especially for rigidly stratified and uptight English people. She apparently missed entirely the fact that nice girls don't go stay alone with unmarried men (one, and then another poor Ethel really gets handed off like an unwanted pet). We have characters who were "sinister" or born "on the wrong side of the blanket" and little Daisy knew that meant a fellow was "not quite a gentleman". That these were not entirely understood by the author is a gap from which much of the entertainment arises. It is BY a child, but clearly modeled on adult conversation and novels. This is really pretty hilarious, but I don't think, contrary to some shelving I see, that it would be very interesting for children.
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