Evening Mood painting

"It's an attitude that's gone out of date," agreed Egerton, "but I can quite see that it would appeal to Derek Luscombe."
　　"He's a dear,"said Elvira, "but very difficult, somehow,to talk to seriously."
　　"Yes, I can see that that might be so. Well, howmuch do you know about yourself, Elvira? About your family circumstances?"
　　"I know that my father died when I was five andthat my mother had run away from him with someone when I was about two, I don't remember her at all. I barely remember my father. He was very old and hadhis leg up on a chair. He used to swear. I was rather scared of him. After he died I livedfirst with an aunt or a cousin or something of my father's,until she died, and then I lived with Uncle Derek and his sister. But then she died and Iwent to Italy. Uncle Derek has arranged for me, now, to live with the Melfords who are hiscousins and very kind and nice and have two daughters about my age."