Daily Pym

An occasional dose of Barbara Pym

‘Poor Mr. Driver — it seems unkind to leave him all alone this evening.’ 

‘Yes,’ Miss Doggett agreed. ‘One does feel that men need company more than women do. A woman has a thousand and one little tasks in the house, and then her knitting or sewing.’

Jane, who did not seem to have these things, made no answer.

— Jane & Prudence, chapter eleven