A variation on this theme occurs in Alba de Céspedes ' The Secret ( translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1958, page 114 ) where she confides that I still had a whole afternoon before me to spend, and I used it to tidy up my drawers.... One may well wonder what Miss Stowe had in mind when, in Uncle Tom's Cabin ( Chapter 5 ), she narrates how Mrs. Shelby stood like one stricken.
A variation occurs in Alba de Céspedes ' The Secret ) where she confides that I still had a whole afternoon before me to spend, and I used it to tidy up my drawers.... One may well wonder what Miss Stowe had in mind when, in Uncle Tom's Cabin.