I’m sure you do, you must do – man possessed of all your insight and such capability. What with one thing and another it has been what we in the trade call a rather hellish week. And while making oneself out to be no sort of a soothsayer, all the portents are, it can only get hellisher.’ ‘The tur...
It’s hardly as if, though, something very bad is slated to happen to me: no terrible storm is known to be breaking. It’s only just the thought that it might do, that’s all. Just the thought of it, you see … more than enough to lay me down low. An impending whatever they call that thing—cloud, if ...
PART THREE Making Waves The sun filtered down through a vertical lattice, and the pattern it was making across the big green baize table immediately put Marianne in mind of the lawn, the lovely lawn, at the old house. A long-ago but potent memory – she could only have been, oh – six or so, mayb...