Peter Walsh once loved Clarissa, but she had refused to marry him. Peter Walsh, an old and close friend of Clarissa’s, has returned to England after five years in India, and comes to visit her. Lady Bruton dabbles in charities and social reform, and is sponsoring a plan to have young men and women travel to Canada. Richard Dalloway is invited to lunch at the home of Lady Millicent Bruton, a fashionable aristocrat. Dalloway, but their lives are connected by external events, such as the sight of an airplane overhead, and by the fact that they are both sensitive people who feel empty. Septimus Warren Smith and his wife Lucrezia happen to be walking on the street. She walks to the florist shop to buy flowers for the party. The story takes place in London on a day in June 1923, a day when Clarissa is giving a dinner party. Clarissa Dalloway is the wife of Richard Dalloway, a Conservative Member of Parliament. Dalloway (1925) presents a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class English woman.
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