She’d cried all her tears and now felt empty and numb. She was glad that both Harry and Beth had got a few hours off to be with her. Ed had wanted to come but Mr Oliver couldn’t spare him. ‘I’ll be thinking of you, Lizzie,’ he’d told her. ‘Madge says you’re to come to us whenever you like… we’re ...
He’d hardly spoken to her since, having left the house before she was up that morning, and she thought he was brooding over something; she could only be glad of the respite. She held her breath as she listened at the door of Bernie’s study. He had a visitor in there and one he didn’t want her to ...
When we arrived I saw there was a little crowd of people outside. They looked at me oddly as I jumped out of the car and ran inside. Doctor Barton was waiting for me. He stopped me as I would have gone into the bedroom. ‘She’s very poorly,’ he said in a low voice. ‘I doubt she’ll last the night –...
At least she had been when Emily started her work, but the scene in the kitchen was very different now. Most of the servants seemed to have gathered there and were talking in an excited manner. A hush fell over them as she walked in and they looked at one another, as if wondering what to say to h...