The Prayer

The Prayer by Violet Hunt is a critical depiction of the 19th-century middle upper class in London. Excerpt: "'It is but giving over of a game. That must be lost.'--PHILASTER 'Come, Mrs Arne--come, my dear, you must not give way like this! You can't stand it--you really can't! Let Miss Kate take you away--now do!' urged the nurse, with her most motherly of intonations."