“Philip telephoned the night I first arrived. He sounded mature and serious, with his British accent. We agreed I would travel to Oxford the next weekend. He lived at his college, but he had friends whose “flat” I could stay in.
When I hung up, Margaret said, “I’d feel better, Lizzie, if you stayed in a hotel.””
“English Lesson: A Memoir by Elizabeth Strout” Washington Post Magazine July 12, 2009