9/5: unexpected pocket

...of time and pleasure.  Though my classes have started, the work-load this week is light, so I spent the morning reading Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary by Ruby Ferguson.  It's one of Persephone's titles, which is how I found it, and as always I'm so grateful for their publishing choices.  Though I love their selection of books, I'm not always a fan of the prefaces they commission for their editions--but I thought Candia McWilliam did a lovely job with the preface for this one.  I read it after I finished the book, and it felt apt and insightful.