Both are middle-class wives and mothers who are socially isolated and disenchanted with their marriages. … Unable to escape their uxorial and maternal roles, both retreat into themselves.

From the North, South, East, and West the Grangers came, on horseback and in every conceivable style of vehicle.

[…] Violent gusts of wind came in rapid succession down the sound of Kilbrannan ; and a skifting rain, flung fitfully but fiercely from the huge black clouds as they hurried along before the tempest that ...

the broad-featured son of a farmer