Edith Little keeps house for Gloster Ridley, editor of the Salterton newspaper, the Evening Bellman. Mr. Ridley thinks of Mrs. Little as Constant Reader, devouring the newspaper by night and giving unsolicited observations on its contents by day. As Mrs. Little explains to Bevill Higgin, teacher of elocution, she reads for errors:
Leaven of Malice is the second novel of Davies’s Salterton Trilogy. A prank makes the plot go: a newspaper announcement of a wedding to take place on November 31. November 31, as on this 2009 calendar.
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