Why don't we try and get it? She whispered.

Mrs. Arbethnot became even more wide-eyed.

Get it? she repeated.

Yes, said Mrs. Wilkins, still as though she were afraid of being overheard.

Not just sit here and say how wonderful, and then go home to Hampstead without having put out a finger. Go home, just as

usual, and see about the dinner and the fish, just as we've been doing for years and years,

and we'll go on doing for years in years. In fact, said Mrs. Wilkins, flushing to the roots of her hair,

for the sound of what she was saying, of what was coming pouring out, frightened her,

and yet she couldn't stop. I see no end to it.

There is no end, so that there ought to be a break.

There ought to be intervals in everybody's interests.

Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back

so much nicer. You see, after a bit, everybody needs a holiday. Join us on the relaxing holiday of a lifetime, with the Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.

Set in the dreamy, sun-drenched atmosphere of the Italian Riviera, this story tells the tale

of four women seeking to escape from their dreary London lives, only to find unexpected

joy, friendship and renewal in a secluded medieval castle.

Along the way, we'll meet with such characters as the thoughtful and hopeful Lottie Wilkins,

the reserved yet yearning rose Arbethnot, the formidable Mrs. Fisher, and the glamorous yet melancholy,

Lady Carolyn Dester. Von Armin has a writing style that is both gently humorous and beautifully

descriptive, wrapping you in the warmth of an Italian spring and making it

easy to drift away into peaceful slumber.

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