Our story this week is about an innocent abroad. A quiet Englishwoman, unmarried and middle-aged, finds herself in a small hotel in south-west France. After taking a nice hot bath, she goes into the wrong hotel bedroom and gets locked in. She realises there is no escape from the room. At that moment, she sees a man lying in the bed asleep. She does not know how to behave in a situation like this. She becomes very worried. If she wakes the man, people will know she has been in a room with a strange man. What will people think of her? What will the man do to her?
Click on the link below to read this weeks story.
http://www.hillsdalesites.org/personal/hstewart/Mystery/Aumonier%20(1916)%20Miss%20Bracegirdle%20Does%20Her%20Duty.pdf
Stacey Aumonier was born in England in 1887. He wrote many short stories. Miss Bracegirdle Does her Duty is about Englishness and how English people of a certain class cope with unexpected events. Aumonier died very young at the age of 41 in 1928. He is little known today.
No comments:
Post a Comment