1. “What do you worry about, Mrs. Armitage?”
    “Dust,” I said.
    “I’m sorry?”
    “Dust. You know? Dust.”
    “Oh,” he said, and wrote for a while on a long piece of paper. Then he sat back, folded his hands and said, “Tell me about it.”
    “It’s very simple. Jake is rich. He makes about £50,000 a year, I suppose you’d call that rich. But everything is covered with dust.”
    “Please go on.”

    — How many times a day do you think about these lines from the first page of Penelope Mortimer’s Pumpkin Eater?

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