"Really," she said to George, "all those tales about mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law not getting along? Poppycock! Sasha is a friend, something like the daughter I never got, and she's there all the time. And her family are all lovely, Russian, and amusingly bohemian -- so much fun!"
That had helped her to get over the lack of her husband rather more easily. And it wasn't as if they'd still been deeply in love -- if ever.-