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The house is called "Pleasance" and is also rented by two sisters, Blanche and Aileen. The story revolves around the fortunes of two neighbouring families of varied social standing up. The sisters' semi-detachment is to the Hopkinsons. Whilst Blanche's hubby, Arthur, is abroad on a quest, the neighbours soon verify themselves priceless as friends and Blanche and Mrs Hopkinson discover that their husbands already are acquainted! Emily Eden said of this work at the time of writing, that it was a 'tolerably faithful representation of modern population' however when it was published 30 years later, she noticed it as 'a strange chronicle of the Olden Time'. It remains, however, a sharp and witty cameo of polite population in nineteenth hundred years England.
