It was not so much that there had been no one to greet her, for she was not expected and it was late in the afternoon, but to be told by a servant that she would like as not find Miss Paget in the stable was the outside of enough! What was the world coming to when a visitor was expected to go in ...
‘Too clean,’ he said and, reaching down to the cold hearth and rubbing his finger along the soot-laden bars, he spread a little on their faces and on the backs of their hands, ignoring Kitty’s expression of distaste and Judith’s protests. ‘Now, let us be off. You may wear your cloaks in the carri...
One, a young man, fair-haired and thin as a reed, was dressed in what had once been the resplendent uniform of Napoleon's Old Guard, covered in silver lace and gold braid. Now it was shabby and devoid of any decoration; even the silver buttons had been removed and replaced with leather ones. His ...