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So romantic. I think when Norah Lofts writes about Mary Crispi she may be writing about herself. But not sure....

I don't know. Men make the laws for men, don't they? honestly, Hatton, I think if you could lend me a little money I'd better go right away.
But where would you go?
Anywhere where he couldn't find me. She sat down on the edge of the bed. "Oh, I wish to God I'd gone away in the first place. I knew in my heart that was what I should do. I was free, I'd got my own money, my own horse. Now I have nothin

She said: "They were right....people laughed and said it was superstition, but those who knew.....they said it was the devil who came in a snowstorm and could do more with one hand than any man could do with two, and bewitched your mother and then vanished....Nothing else could account for it."

I have read this book many times and its falling apart. The first time I read it was in Suffolk in 1975 from the library there. There is a note that I read it in June 2009. If not for the note I would not have remembered. It says NEQ question Jun 09.