Suddenly grown up, she floated round the city on a cloud of delight. It was not merely her own self-confidence which told her that she had emerged at last from the schoolroom, but the manner in which everyone treated her. True, she was still required to be accompanied everywhere by Miss Jarrold, ...
On the next morning, the morning of the trial, Margaret awoke at six o’clock after a night of uneasy sleep. As she looked from her window she saw the light of a lamp glowing in the tower room, and wondered whether her father had spent the whole night awake. Whatever the outcome of the trial might...
English wine.’ Even the liveliest dinner party may experience a sudden break in the general conversation, and it is always into such a silence that the most embarrassing remarks fall. Every head turned towards David Hardie and awaited his answer. The occasion was one of a regular series of dinner...
He thanked Grace for the contents of one of them and promised that the other would, as she had commanded, be kept for opening on Christmas Day. Suddenly, in the middle of a page, his tone – and even his handwriting – changed. Words sprawled over the paper to express a frenzy of emotion. ‘But shal...
On the day after her arrival in San Francisco with Robert and Alexa, Margaret went for a walk. She felt confused and unwell -but there were no symptoms which would enable her, as a doctor, to diagnose her own case. No doubt the main cause of the turmoil in her mind was the strain of turning her b...
He was not the only man to be writing to his mother at this moment and to judge by the tense quietness of his companions and the uneasy chewing of fountain pens, he was not alone in finding the letter difficult to phrase. For some days now they had all guessed that a big new offensive was imminen...