Nancy Mitford Part II

Fanny marries Alfred Wincham and they move to a small house in Oxford. Linda's marriage goes wrong almost immediately. She finds Tony's middle class ways irritating and he finds her frivolity annoying. She becomes pregnant, and has a daughter Moira, but she does not care for the child. Fanny becomes pregnant, and sees less of Linda, who is living in London and busy with a social life. Polly's romantic life takes a strange twist. Lady Montdore is a bossy domineering woman who has been having an affair with Boy Dougdale, a writer, who is married to Lord Montdore's sister. Boy is a writer of coffee table books about the upper classes and a snob. He also likes to flirt and fool around with young girls and the Radlett girls have often been fondled by him... though they laugh at it. Then he took up with his sister in law and had a long standing relationship with her. But Patricia is tired out from her not very happy marriage, and she gets ill and dies. |Boy has always been an unfaithful husband, but Patricia had been loyal to him. Now, suddenly, Polly tells her mother that she has proposed to Boy, and they are now engaged. Polly thinks that Boy is in love with her but the truth is that he does not really want to marry her. He is afraid because it will causes a terrible rift between him and Lord and Lady Montdore and half of society will be shocked. But Polly is beautiful and he is a snob, and he cannot extricate himself.....