Not that she is not enjoying the holiday [Spring Break] — as it is sometimes called. She really likes to see three helpings of mashed potato, thick slices of steak, and mountains of toasted angel cake with chocolate sauce systematically stoked into young furnaces. There was chocolate angel cake once: an innovation, a departure from tradition. Mrs. Appleyard had a read a rule in the paper. Even she is not proof against all human frailty.This is such a charming and gently humorous book. I recently reread it as my pre-lights-out book. It was perfect for powering down before sleep.
It was Sally who summed it up politely.
"Thank you," she said. "I don't think I care for any more of the dark meat of the angel."
Louise Andrews Kent, Mrs. Appleyard's Year
Monday, January 14, 2019
The Dark Meat of the Angel
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