From her own perspective, Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, still good-looking, and fairly young, while her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Bored and unfulfilled, Wilmet pours her energy into the nearby Anglo-Catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests. There's also Piers Longridge, but in Pym's 1958 novel, he proves to be a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.