DUTIFUL Rhoda and her elderly mother are leaving the family home for a smaller house, a move which unsettles everybody.

Rhoda questions her spinster role and brother Maurice his marriage to a shallow, snobbish wife.

Will the current generation demand duty from their family and employees at the expense of their happiness?

A lovely, elegaic hymn to vanishing ways of life, lost childhoods, time past, it is great therapy for the unassertive woman: Rhoda, an embyronic maiden aunt, learns ultimately that 'being selfish kept you alive'.

Frances Perkins