Books: Clerk's Wife

A NOTE IN MUSIC—Rosamond Lehmann—Holt ($2.50).

Grace was a big woman, nearly middleaged, not pretty, a messy dresser. But her husband Tom, fussy fat clerk in an English provincial town, loved her in his own way, realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did...

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