To The North

TO THE NORTH portrays a classic romantic entanglement of a love sympathetic, honest, well-meaning young woman who cannot resist becoming involved with a man who is patently caddish and predatory. Instriking and richly comic contrast to the turbulence of this passion is the cool, detached atmosphere of the house in St John's Wood in which it takes its course - where the young woman's sister-in-law with her strictly unromantic preoccupations is always near by, the orphaned teenager Pauline presents herself as gawky innocence itself, and the power-loving busybody Lady Waters misses nothing.