'I have never seen Adam smile before.' She got to her feet and made a little curtsy. 'I did not see you, sir.' She blushed. 'I am meeting Dr Malton here.' 'Yes, I knew he was coming. I try to make Adam laugh. I have not quite managed that, but I got a smile as you saw.' 'Yes.' Adam was now eating...
I took Oddleg, the strong, placid horse that had brought me from London. The pall of grey cloud had thickened, and the air was uncomfortably heavy. We took the Portsmouth road south; Hobbey had told us that in that direction trees were being cut on both Hugh's estate and his.To the right one of t...
'Who did this cruel wicked thing; And why;' 'I do not know. Dorothy, where was Roger yesterday evening;' 'He - he was out. His new pro bono client.' 'The same client he went to see on Thursday; When I left him after we had visited Dr Malton he said he was going to see a pro bono client. He said h...
When he came into the office Carol was not yet at her desk. He had been very worried by the telephone call last night; he didn’t know whether she was looking for a shoulder to cry on after being questioned about the missing file, or had somehow guessed at his own involvement. He had been horrifie...
They were in a state of high excitement, jabbering excitedly round the fire. ‘D’ye see that fat old merchant dressed in sackcloth, crawling across the cobbles? I thought his eyes would pop from his head!’ Evidently they had witnessed the former rebels abasing themselves be...
'So make sure you do as you're told.' Harsnet took a shilling from his pocket and passed it to Wheelows. 'All right, you can go.' The old man bowed quickly to us, cast a last frightened look over at the marshes, then clambered grunting through the mud to the path. He walked rapidly off towards We...
On the path to the quarry the prisoners squelched through clinging red mud; each day the snowline on the distant mountains descended a little lower. That morning it was raw and damp. The work detail stood in lines by the quarry, stamping their feet to keep warm as a pair of army sappers carefully...
Any hope the storm might have heralded a change in the weather was gone; it was hotter than ever, not a cloud in the sky. The puddles were drying already and a malodorous steam rose from heaps of rubbish washed down from the alleyways. I had thought there might be an argum...
He looked haggard. ‘What has happened?’ I asked breathlessly. ‘Not more accusations?’It was more a tremor than a shake of the head. ‘No, not that.’ He swallowed. ‘Edward Cotterstoke is dead.’I thought of the desperate figure in the boat that morning. Edward was not young, and the last few days ha...
I envied Mark as he ploughed on energetically, sturdy legs kicking up the snow. When we reached the courtyard I stopped to catch my breath. ‘The trail in that room leads us back to Brother Gabriel. It seems he was concealing things after all. Let us go and find him. We’ll look for him in the chu...