'You do have a little curl, though. You had it then, and you have it now. Mother used to refer to it as your "kiss-curl". You have pretty hair, Georgie Porgie, even if it does lead a life of its own. It never stays put like Jennie's does.' Georgina could have told him that she didn't use hair lac...
said the doctor.Helen was shocked. “Skinny?” she repeated.The doctor grinned. “Can you drive the jeep?” he asked her. “You’d better get him settled in at the hotel before he comes round. That leg’ll pain him for a day or two yet.”“Skinny!” Helen said again.“So he is!” the doctor said again. “Now,...
Women meant nothing to him, they said, compared with his beloved lions. But Clare found it was one thing to listen to advice -- another thing altogether to follow it! A lion pride is a hunting unit, and this would seem to be its sole reason for existence. And it is the extraordinary dominance of ...
Shirley, ‘I had a feeling you were going to be angry, but he was so persuasive and it will be lovely to have something to do again. I’ve felt so old and useless these last few weeks. There’s absolutely nothing here I have to do! Gregory wants me to do for him what I used to do for Henry: put all ...
If she wasn’t very careful, she told herself, she would lose her sense of proportion altogether. Such a swift, unexpected embrace should not be built up into a world-shattering event, the most important thing that had ever happened to her in her whole life. So what if he had kissed her? She, and ...
‘Do I detect a certain change in your feelings for me, Megan my love?’She took refuge in confusion. ‘I don’t know what you mean,’ she said.‘As feminine as ever!’ he accused her.She sipped nervously at the pretty red liquid in her glass. ‘The thing is,’ she said with difficulty, ‘the Witch’s Cauld...
Fraser flew up to Cue from Perth the day before the shearers left Mirrabooka. Andrew and Mary went to Cue to meet her. Mary had been strangely silent all day and I worried about her."It will be good for you to have your mother with you!” I told her cheerfully as she waited for Andrew to come out ...
Outside, laughing Filipinos hurried backwards and forwards bringing the gangway up to the aircraft, and the enormous petrol pumps so that it could be refuelled as soon as possible. The passengers made their way to the back of the aeroplane and then, one by one, stepped out into the steamy, humid ...
Ruth looked over to where Mario’s aunt had been sleeping, but she had already dressed and gone up on deck. Ruth hurried into her clothes and re-packed the few things she had needed during the night. Through the porthole she could see the sunlight dancing on the water and she was more than a littl...
She had had enough of high fashion for a few hours. The day had been unbearably hot, without any sign of the cooling breeze that she had come to expect, blowing in off the Indian Ocean and stirring the steamy heat of the equatorial coast. All the girls had wilted in the crisp dresses they had bee...
I had to keep Pamela very firmly in my mind’s eye not to be carried away by the calypso music, the heat, and the sheer pressure of the human beings around me and of my own emotions. “I don’t think you’re being very kind,” I said at last.“No,” he agreed. “Kindness doesn’t really come into it, does...
She couldn’t pretend an interest in either wheat or maize, but she was set on avoiding her brother for the rest of the morning.“Shall we go on with our tour?” I asked him in a funny tight voice I scarcely recognized as my own.“Gideon is different out here,” she complained. “He hasn’t time to talk...
Wayne into the drawing room. With a visible effort he greeted them, but almost immediately he sank back into his original gloom. ‘What’s up?’ Felicity demanded, her voice a little gruff.James flushed up in that absurd way that he had.‘I thought—’ he began.‘James came to see Sara,’ Mrs. Wayne brok...
A glance at her watch confirmed her worst fears, that it was not yet six o’clock. If she subtracted the two and half hours’ difference between English summer time and the time in Iran, the equation was too horrible to be contemplated. Yet there was someone outside who was already hard at work. Sh...