'I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had ...
'Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?'
It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched p...
'Yes, and then I'll go over Miss Kay's rooms with either you or the housekeeper.'
To those who saw Saltings first on a hot day in summer-when heat shimmered in the hollows-that ch...
There was silence. In it Janet heard the twittering of innumerable birds chatting as they settled...
This one week's holiday was all that most of the audience could get, they were free for one week ...
Judy sat staring out of the railway carriage window. Of course there was a war on, but could any ...
It was the last day of school term and, though nobody knew it except herself, an important day fo...
'Dancing is not, as with some of the other arts, a matter of short inspiration and quick effects;...