He had been weeding the lawn from before breakfast-time till about five o’clock every evening for six weeks. At first Laura had felt there was something almost abnormal about such persistence (although persistence was a virtue), but she accepted it now. ‘I’m just going up ...
Zoe moved instantly from her chair to sit on the rail of the verandah. She looked across the garden to the tennis court where four figures ran to the net and paused, arguing some fine point of order. ‘That’s not so unusual. He laughs quite often. He makes me laugh often.’ It was impossible not to...
It rang for Emily, who vaulted from bed, horrified by the noise, the boredom of sleep, and the overpowering musty airlessness her grandmother chose to sleep in. Between the sheets, Lilian unconsciously expanded, adjusting to the greater freedom, perhaps as pleased to be alone as Emily was to stay...
Stan sat in a deep leather chair and inspected the room while he waited for David to see him. Five minutes, his secretary had said. Now she was tapping efficiently on her typewriter, occupied and withdrawn, and next to her, on the other side of the polished wooden fence, another girl, a blonde—Cl...
She turned now and then, when speaking, to look at Leonie, but Leonie’s head never turned. The straightness of her gaze, the elegance of her bearing, seemed almost unnatural to Janie. Janie was sixteen and a half, and had been at work in an office for exactly one day. This evening, saying ‘miracl...