For that matter, there were a good many things about Valancy that nobody suspected. “It is not,” Valancy could hear her mother’s prim, dictatorial voice asserting, “it is not maidenly to think about men.” The thought of her mother’s expression made Valancy laugh-for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected. “Suppose,” thought Valancy with a ghastly grin, “I answered with the plain truth, ‘I am crying because I cannot get married.’ How horrified Mother would be- though she is ashamed every day of her life of her old maid daughter.”īut of course appearances should be kept up.

Persistent, mosquito-like questions regarding the cause thereof. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. Deerwood and the Stirlings had long since relegated Valancy to hopeless old maidenhood.īut Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet-never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty- nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man. Valancy wakened early, in the lifeless, hopeless hour just preceding dawn. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. Montgomery Language English having PDF Size 2 MB and No of Pages 144. Click here to Download The Blue Castle PDF Book by L.

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery