Sublime

I need not tell you this was my sister Rose. She is, I know, a comely matron still,

‘She was the wife of John Bell, who owned Lowlands until his death in 1889, and we’ve never known anything more about her: it’s as if she’s been cut out of time. We have records of their marriage, but not of her death; we have no portraits of her anywhere, and when the house and contents were sold none of her possessions were listed in the

she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.

Anne

Jane

Jean Rhys.