Another day to get through, another day of hell on this godforsaken fell. What was the point? She may as well be dead. ‘Where’s my medicine? You’re supposed to give me my medicine.’ ‘Not until you get yourself off your back, otherwise I’d get no work from you ever.’ Beth couldn’t get through her ...
Patrick leaned back in her father’s old chair, the one she had once offered to Farmer Bilton, and smiled at her. He looked so very handsome in the twilight. His teeth and light eyes contrasted starkly with his sun-darkened skin. She wondered if he took his shirt off in the afternoon heat and gues...
Josephina and Juliana were practising a duet while she stood behind them, nodding in time with the metronome. He listened until they had finished their piece, acknowledging that they played well.They sang well too, but parlour pursuits were not to his taste and he was glad he wasn’t a girl. His m...