Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent: Meals at Manderley

The Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent project is a weekly fiction series that, for legal purposes, charts various uncomfortable meals hosted by the nameless second wife – let’s call her Mrs. de Summer — of a wealthy Cornish landowner.

The previous chapter can be found here: “My shyness Maxim had removed from me by degrees — perceptible at first, and with such…