The cold, indigestible lump of his lie to Scotland Yard, and before that to his employer, had by this time so settled into his system that it did not impede its normal workings. Nevertheless it remained as an uneasiness, a perpetual vague discomfort. Especially was it a reproach in his relation t...
Some again, ignoring altogether the main purpose of the midday break, sat basking on the wide sweep of steps that led up to the pompous, Victorian, pillared entrance. Simon Fawcett came quietly from the darkness of the college entrance hall into the sunshine at the top of ...
As he put them down she said, holding out her hand, “I can’t thank you enough. Don’t wait. You’re parked in the Staff reserved bay, so the sooner you’re out of it the better. I’ll tell Sheila of all your kindness.” A shade of annoyance crossed Stone’s face. &nb...
Instead, at a silent signal from Mrs. Lawler, they all three crept away to Myra’s room to discuss Gwen’s latest display of temperament in private. So when the girl opened her eyes, instead of the usual ring of embarrassed faces she found that she was alone. Not even a sing...
Very slowly Giles’s embarrassment faded, though his utter bewilderment and protesting incredulity remained. Miriam, of all people. The lost love turning up in the last place on earth he would have looked at, if he had been trying to find her. Peeping at him from a window of this seedy make-believ...
During his long rest on the Embankment bench he had not read a newspaper nor smoked a cigarette. He had just sat and stared at the river, quite heedless of those who passed or of those who came to sit beside him for a few impatient minutes before jumping up and hurrying away. &n...