![]() Instead she pretends and passes off as her grandson before the incumbents' ever-watchful eyes a young man who helps her when she falls on the street and whom, in turn, she rewards with a dinner, a sweater she knits, or the love he doesn't want. Palfrey has only a daughter in Scotland - their letters are merely a force or a formality - and a grandson who doesn't come to visit. ""Relations make all the difference"" but Mrs. Palfrey, the dubious best which is yet to come is reduced to the indifferent meals (a breakfast redeemed by her own pot of marmalade), the occasional trips to the library, or perhaps a real ""outing"" which might be a funeral. ![]() ![]() Home, where no one is ""allowed to die,"" is the Claremont, a second or third class hotel in London - a hiatus between the end of living and the end of life. This is the strongest of Miss Taylor's novels which have appeared at infrequent intervals for twenty-five years - a gentle, saddening tragicomedy of old age with something of the universality of the play Home. ![]()
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