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

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.

the broad-featured son of a farmer

[…] 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 ...