Mother

“‘Selling at 137 7-8, you see,’ said Mr. Beverly. ‘Deducting the tax, there you are scaled down again.’ He pencilled some swift calculations. ‘There,’ said he. And I nearly unde...

IN 1901, this story appeared anonymously as the ninth of a sequence of short stories by various authors, in a volume entitled A House Party. It has been slightly remodelled for...

“Ethel and I talked it over in the train going up to town on Monday morning. We had by that time grown calmer. ‘If it is not false pretences,’ said she, ‘and you cannot sue him...