The Enchanted April
The Enchanted April by Von Arnim, Elizabeth unfolds through 21 chapters. Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins decide to answer an advertisement for a medieval castle, writing to Z, Box 1000, *The Times* for particulars, and both feel a strange mixture of excitement and guilt over this secret venture. Beneath their impulse lies Mrs. Arbuthnot's deeper conflict: she lives on the proceeds of her husband Frederick's unsavory memoirs of royal mistresses, has hoarded a nest-egg for charitable work, and now is tempted to spend it on a self-indulgent holiday that clashes with her moral convictions.