Scenario/synopsis 1
Flora Post, newly married to Charles Fairford – embryo parson and amateur aviator, now lives in the leafy Sussex hamlet of Nether Wopping, where she ‘interferes’ in the life of the villagers, who confide in her chiefly because she is educated, and the vicar’s wife.
The tale unfolds with Flora listening to stories and tittle-tattle from the housewives – bored and otherwise, from the village and surrounding farms and large houses.
Scandal is the main topic of these ‘chats’ and Flora makes good use of them, for her own benefit and her husband’s and for the chosen few – downtrodden wives and sisters, mothers and grandmothers, daughters and aunts – while not exactly a feminist, Flora is assertive and it shows in the advice she gives to others.
The men of the area are torn between hating her for her meddling, and adoring her for her pulchritudinous figure and enticing looks. She plays them off against each other, while doing the females of the neighbourhood no end of good, with hugely humorous effects.
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