Vixen Volume 3 Chapter 2 - Chiefly Financial

In which the absence of young Violet leaves the Abbey House steeped in a quiet melancholy, as her mother, Mrs. Winstanley, finds herself solitary and much changed under the exacting stewardship of her prudent husband, Captain Winstanley. The narrative gently unfolds a domestic conflict over the cost of an extravagant dress bill, illuminating the tension between frivolity and frugality that shadows the household’s twilight prospects.