Jake sat again at his last, continuing the somewhat intricate repair to his second pair of boots, and Hannah fussed endlessly with some more darning. Mr Amberley was pretending to read a volume of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Blanche sat on the settle beside him, doing nothing except watch the ...
The clock on the mantelpiece stood at half-past five as she then went to sit at the dressing table for the maid to dress her hair a little more simply than the coiffure required for the ball. Mrs McNeil sat by the fire, having been aroused from her bed to hear what had tra...