The Caravaners Chapter 20

In which the unpredictable complexities of human nature unfold amid the supposed idyll of a caravan holiday, bringing unforeseen departures and a shrinking of the party that stirs a mixture of disappointment and wry amusement. The narrator, caught between social decorum and personal reflection, resolves to return home, contemplating the blurred boundaries of propriety and the curious surprises that life—especially caravan life—frequently bestows.