![]() ![]() ![]() So now I have watched the film, and re-read the book. She read the book for the Past Offences books of #1936 meme (see my Ngaio Marsh entry here – which, like this book, contains bogus religious figures) and liked it, and mentioned that Alfred Hitchcock had made a film based on it at year later, Young and Innocent. Observations: I was reminded of this book by a review at Tracy’s Bitter Tea and Mystery blog. ‘One grey flannel suit and hat to match.’ In spite of her independence and her sureness of spirit there was something forlorn about her, he felt. They were ordered from the tailor just as her school clothes had been. ![]() Her hat had been got to match, and matched also in dowdiness. They were neat, certainly, but they had an unused look and the grey suit she was wearing, although undoubtedly “good”, was dowdy. She was dressed in her “town” clothes, he noticed but they did not seem to be an improvement on her country ones. Only her shoes- scarred like her hands, but thick, well-shaped and expensive- betrayed the fact that she was not a charity child. Her skirt was too short and one stocking was violently twisted on its stick of leg. The tweed she wore was rubbed at the cuffs and covered all over with “pulled” ends of thread where briars had caught. She was standing up now, her hands pushed into her jacket pockets, so that the much-tried garment sagged to two bulging points. ![]()
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