![]() ![]() When Mary becomes involved in the running of the farm, she realizes that its failure is not down to bad luck, as Dick keeps telling her, but his incompetence. From the beginning, they are distant and cold, but, except when Mary briefly runs away, fear of loneliness and lack of money keep them together. ![]() Dick is also in a hurry to wed, because he is very lonely and unhappy clawing a bare living from a subsistence farm and living in a bare, ugly little house. But, after overhearing her friends laugh at her as sexless and immature, she resolves to marry, and when Dick Turner asks her she consents, though she has met him only twice. Īfter a loveless, wretched childhood, Mary is contented with her life as an office worker in a city in Rhodesia. ![]() The bulk of the novel is the story of Mary's life. The novel begins with a newspaper clipping about the death of Mary Turner, a white woman, killed by her black servant, Moses.
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