The Daughters Of Mrs Peacock (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Mrs Peacock, though incapable of doubting her own judgment, was not uncompassionate. Secure of having her own way, which was all she ever demanded of life, she was quite ready to forgive and forget. Forgetting, however, was not so easy. Catherine’s dutiful surrender had taken her by surprise: she had been prepared for a more protracted resistance: and the girl’s quiet sub-missiveness in the weeks that followed, no sulks, no tears, no outbursts of rebellion, not only disarmed her but gave her some moments of uneasiness. She relied on time and absence to do their remedial work, but remembering her own young womanhood she could not disguise from herself that meanwhile the dear child was unhappy. Several times she found it necessary to assure her husband that they had acted for the best, and that henceforward, until the process of healing should be completed, they must treat Catherine very gently. ‘I agree with you, my dear Emily,’ said he. ‘I am resolved to beat her not more than three times a week.’ Catherine, then, was forgiven; but her mother’s anger against Robert Crabbe was increased rather than diminished.
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