Tennyson’s Idyls of the King (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

Angle of Repose

Then a volume in limp leather, tooled and stamped in gold: Tennyson’s Idyls of the King, bound for her by Frank Sargent as a gift on her thirty‐eighth birthday. She let it fall open, and of course what did it open to? “The old order changes, yielding place to new.”