I’ll let your father know you're here and bring back the latest news of the conflagration. Compose yourself, little one. I don’t want to have to dub you into unconsciousness," He leaned over her, avoiding her eyes. For a second his cheek lay against her forehead, but when he straightened he had a...
Keith was rolling on his seat and making small sounds which showed he was completely oblivious of everything but the sleepy game he was playing. A moth battered on the windscreen and fell, and something zoomed in one window and out of the other. Ross was driving fairly fast, but presently he slow...
Tall and broad-shouldered in a fresh white dinner jacket, his face clean-cut, his dark hair slicked back so that the single wave was almost ironed out, Andrew looked distinguished and austere. His comprehensive glance at Karen’s slight figure in the simple pale pink brocade, at her slender arms w...
He was holding a dark, three-quarter coat and before she could protest had dropped it about her shoulders.“I didn’t know if you’d brought a wrap of any kind,” he said, “but I was pretty sure you’d be out here without one. This belongs to my aunt.”“Thank you.”She stood there uncertainly, wanting t...
Passfield came over to check up on a couple of cases he had recently released. She went with him to the workers’ huts and found her mind so occupied with what she met there that it had no time to get busy on anything else. By lunch-time, she had come to the conclusion that the life of a plantatio...
Stuart, who had to keep an appointment in town, had driven her to “Komana” just after noon, and left her there, promising to telephone if he were likely to be back later than four o’clock. Mrs. Conlowe was at the hairdressers, but due home for lunch, so Lindsey took a magazine into the sun lounge...