When Flora Chicken returns to Mycroft Manor after a long absence, Allan reflects on events that led up to their meeting. The materials --or rather the flotsam and jetsom from which this narrative is constructed allowed the author to stray heavily--absolutely stuff pages!! into nursery rhyme and limerick territory; she hopes eventually to be shot of it all.
Flora Returns is part 1 of Flora Chicken's trajectory through a narrative that will be rivalled only by Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Proust's Duchess de Guermantes .