A Sensible Life Author:Mary Wesley It was a vacation Flora would never forget, the spring of 1926 in Brittany where a number of middle-class English families had taken their children for Easter. It was thought good for the children to catch a glimpse of foreign soil, see some sights, and hear a few words of French. For Flora, a lonely ten-year-old with thick dark hair and long,... more » long eyelashes, ignored by her distant self absorbed parents, it was the first time she had encountered the good manners, good humor, and generous affection of such confident young people. She fell in love with the three of them: Cosmo and Hubert, two fifteen-year-old English school boys, close friends on the brink of adulthood, and Felix, a cosmopolitan twenty-one-year-old Dutchman with five large jolly sisters.« less