... remember now. Louise began to eat hungrily. Lovely salad Florinda, delicious. The maid smiled and disappeared into the kitchen, passing under the two pastels that Louise had done of her and which hung on the white walls of the sitting- room. They had ...

... village and he noticed as he opened the gate that Susan had had the garden seen to. He looked into the dining-room and the kitchen, and on the shelf over the stove he found a stack of unopened mail. He glanced through the letters, selected one, and passed ...

... do the same. Wayne laughed. I've something fixed up for you, he said. A policeman's job. Shep will be relegated to the kitchen. He knows a little about preparing Chinese food. You can help him, and at the same time make sure he doesn't forget what he's ...

... the cook, who had been with her for fifteen years the housemaid with glasses (Mrs. Denniston had had her for ten), and the kitchen-maid, a more recent importation, a young girl recommended by the vicar's wife. Three, for one old woman and a nurse. Of late ...

... some tea? Let me make it for you. He took her down the long stone passage which always smelt of mildew, to the sprawling kitchen. Instinctively she seemed to know where everything was, and she popped some scones into the oven. It was one of those Spring ...

... the discovery of a strange new bird or lizard a snapshot of which he generally enclosed. Hannah, reading his letters at the kitchen- table, or peering at the snapshot by lamp light (the farm had never been modernized) began to think of South Africa as a ...

... you '11 come downstairs, said Bertram Lane. Downstairs be hanged said Garthorne. I don't want to see the kitchen-maid. My mother was a kitchen-maid once but I always tell people that she was an Austrian baroness. They swallow everything I like to tell ...

... it's respectability that makes wife-murder ers. It's the fear of what people will say that makes them bury them under the kitchen floor. But what do you care? You'll be dead, and at the same time born again with the world as your oyster. I like you, Mr ...

... time, though he and Pina talked together a good deal in the evenings over their late supper, in the little room next to the kitchen. The woman had interested the hunchback from the first, and when anyone roused his interest he pondered much upon that person's ...

... domestic affairs, said David. You must not take too much upon yourself. I will go down and speak about it, said Susan. To the kitchen she went, and entered so softly that she was not heard by the gipsy woman, who was on her knees, her face buried in her hands ...

... who had arrived from Burnley and said he was going to live there. Paddy did not know him. But there he was, sitting in the kitchen. And these were only a few of Paddy's woes. All the clergy called, one after the other, and mentioned a building fund that ...

... turn-outs and ball-gowns which made women look as though they were dressed in mail bags. The women who worked on the land in Kitchener's Army days toiled in heavy long skirts and coats which must have robbed their muscular efforts of fifty per cent of efficiency ...