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I lifted my pen from the paper and stared out…
AS IT HAPPENED, I arrived in England before my latest…
MY ARM WAS stubborn and refused to heal properly. By…
I TURNED AWAY, looking at the gleaming white walls of…
I HAD MISSED luncheon and was beginning to wish Dr. Philips’s…
I LOST COUNT of time. I had almost no rest,…
WHEN WE GATHERED in the dining room for our noon…
THE RECTOR, WALKING briskly across to the church, waved to…
THE MAGISTRATE, THE aging relict of the man who had…
I HURRIED INTO the church and sat down in a…
THE NEXT THING I knew, a watery sunlight shone through…
I NEEDN’T HAVE worried. She was out, and the flat…
THE NEXT MORNING, Mr. Owens was there with his motorcar when…
MY FATHER HAD his motorcar waiting, with a familiar driver.
GETTING THERE WAS easier said than done. Once more we…
PEREGRINE WAS WAITING for me, and I said as I…
I TOLD PEREGRINE that shifting Lady Parsons’s belief in her…
A MR. FREEMAN agreed to conduct us to the home of…
AT THE SOUND of footsteps, Jonathan Graham whirled, stepped back…
I WAS ALREADY braking hard, with all my strength, weaving…
I HAD COME to the conclusion that French rain was…