Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 23, 2009 at 10:57:24 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Mrs Barrable posted by CWinifred on February 22, 2009 at 14:32:06:
I don't think there is any indication of Mrs Barrable being a war widow. I started on this train of thought by reflecting that Mrs Barrable is an ex-teacher, at a time when, in general, female teachers were expected to be "Miss..." My guess was therefore that her marriage post-dated her teaching of Mrs Callum, so she may not be that much older than Mrs Callum - ten or fifteen years, maybe. She may not want to know her weight (!) but she is not frail.