This was a sweet read with a lovely Swiss doctor and a very ordinary but caring English girl. They meet when Dr Armand Frederic is asked to treat Anthea Wellis for an unnamed illness (probably a spot of TB) and Diana is employed to be her companion on the trip to Switzerland.Anthea is a problem f...
There was nothing very exciting in the view of the street presented to her, so she turned back to look once more at her room, and discovered that it really was as beautiful as it had seemed last night. The soft grey-green carpet was thick, comforting to the feet. The quilted bed-head and the heav...
Close’s drawing-room was warm, well-lit, beautifully furnished and humming with the conversations of twenty people who had gathered to help their hostess celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Evening dresses were being flaunted for this occasion, and the room was gay with the colours of the women’s dr...
This was the first time since she had started her work, that she had had so long a period to herself, and she decided that she would first visit Dorothy and then go down the mountain and take the train into Interlaken. With this in mind, she wore her most attractive suit and a jaunty little hat, ...
She paused sometimes to wonder if she had ever worked so hard, but she enjoyed her work: in the office all day, often in the workshop in the evening; picking blackcurrants and gooseberries for Corinne to make into jam, or raspberries and peas to go into boxes into that capacious deep-freeze again...
There were a few boys whose clothes scarcely ever needed mending, and others who went through socks and underwear with incredible speed. And others, like young Roberts-Mills, who just could not avoid long rents, and who went about considerably patched. Arbuthnot, Cowdray, Fielding, Jones ... She ...
I must finish first what I’m on. But you’ll be here a long time yet, Victoria. We’ll see.’ ‘Then I’ll leave you to your work, Mr. Duncan. Ciao. ’ ‘Ciao, madonna, ’ he said, with a friendly wave of his hand, and Victoria went out of the studio, no longer feeling energetic enough to walk on the hil...
Roger, who had been enlisted in the role of furniture mover, went off to the kitchen, falling her to call him if she needed more help. Laurie nodded and smiled, and went in, to find Max on his knees before the fireplace, lighting a fire.“It’s so long since the room was used,” he said, “that it ne...