I wouldn’t have chosen this, but it is very difficult to navigate a Complete Works on a kindle.
This is an odd book, about a widow with a sickly child who falls in love with her neighbour, a married doctor. Whether their relationship is ever consummated is unclear, possibly it is, once, just before the daughter dies of consumption.
The daughter is both sickly, possessive and jealous of her mother’s feeling for the doctor, which she seems to intuit. After her death, her mother marries the conventional suitor.
I am not entirely sure what the point of the book is or was.
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