Classic Women’s Short Stories (unabridged)

'And after all the weather was ideal.'

'She was still, listening.'

'Sadie brought them in and went back to the door.'

'Lunch was over by half-past one.'

'It was growing dusky...'

'The week after was one of the busiest of their lives.'

'Another thing which complicated matters...'

'But after all, it was not long now...'

'When the war began...'

'La Petite had determined upon trying to fit herself...'

'Ma'ame Pelagie, when she saw that her sister slept...'

'Little more than a year later...'

'Mme Adrienne Farival never announced her coming.'

'They lingered long upon the foot-bridge...'

'Yes, Adrienne was at home. Paris had engulfed her.'

'It was precisely a year later.'

'Perhaps it was the middle of January...'

'In certain lights that mark on the wall seems actually to project from the wall.'