![]() ![]() ![]() Providing him with a layette, a carry-cot and a recipe for formula, Martha proceeds to take her ex-lover Eric at his word – “I want to shoulder all your burdens for you,” Eric has declared in his (scorned) proposal of marriage - and drops this small burden off on the Parisian doorstep of British expatriate Eric and his doting mother.Įric Taylor, returning home to lunch, after the French fashion, from his morning’s work at the City of London (Paris branch) Bank, paused as usual outside the concierge’s lodge. Her child, result of a brief dalliance with the illicit pleasures of physical passion (and not to be repeated, as, though most enjoyable, it makes her too tired to get up early and paint) has safely entered the world. ![]() Martha strikes a blow for her sex as she neatly turns the tables on her partner in procreation. Putting principle into practice, she thus deposited a two-weeks-old infant on the paternal door-step and returned carefree to her proper business of painting masterpieces: vanishing so successfully, indeed, from the lives of both lover and son, that ten years elapsed before the consequences of her misbehaviour caught up with her… ‘Why should it always be the woman,’ asked Martha, ‘who’s landed with the little illegit?’ Martha, Eric and George by Margery Sharp ~ 1964. ![]()
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