This gives the book its wonderful human frailty quality. The gentle humour portrayed here is in contrast to some of the tragedy that is going on. He starts up his wallpaper shop, only to come unstuck with it in more ways than one. He wants to fight for his family and marriage and knows he must provide. Wilfred, conducting himself as a gentleman as much as he can, carries on. When a union between them results in tragedy, it seems that perhaps Flora is lost to another world. He wants to take it gently with Flora as he knows that perhaps she does not love him as much as he loves her. While he learnt everything about funerals and being the purveyor of superior ones from Mr Auden, he has no one to learn about marriage from. Whilst Grace has been away, life has changed for Wilfred, he is learning every day not just from reading the dictionary, he has completed A and is now on B but from being married. Will her presence upset Wilfred and Flora’s wedded bliss? It seems she has only one choice but to return to Narbeth. However the binds that tie Grace to Narbeth are strong, even whilst in London. His past painful marriage to Grace is a memory as she has fled to London, unwanted by her family and with a secret to hide. It is now 1926 and Wilfred has married again to Flora who he is in love with most deeply. Wilfred Price is still the purveyor of superior funerals in Narbeth.
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