"I don\'t mind being alone at all.
Elinor MacFarren--middle-aged spinster, botanical writer, and collector of prints and objets d\'art--decides to rent part of her house to Antonia Bankes, whose American husband is with the Occupation Forc.
I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened of burglars." World War II has ended, residents are flooding back to London, and the housing shortage creates strange bedfellows. "I don\'t mind being alone at all