After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane - a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India - everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fadea way in her grief, remaining as prper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There,...