Category: Novels
Brenda and Florence had both finished their school life. No pains had been spared to render them up to date in every particular. They had gone through the usual curriculum of a girl's education. Brenda was a little cleverer than Florence and had perhaps dived deeper into the h...
"You know," she said, "that we have nothing. I think it is dreadful of Mr Timmins to make a mystery about it, and to let us appear before the good folks at Langdale as apparentl...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The girls were absolutely silent. She talked with animation of their usually gay programme for Christmas. The Blundells and the Arbuthnots and the Aylmers had all invited them t...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.At night there was no doubt whatever that Florence Heathcote's eyes looked their best. By night they were invariably dark; their brightness was enhanced by artificial light. The...
11. CHAPTER TEN.On the following morning, Mrs Fortescue received her promised letter from Mr Timmins. He sat down to write it almost immediately he had seen Florence off by the train, and it ar...
15. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.At Langdale, several people missed Florence and Brenda Heathcote. Susie and her father missed them most, because they were the sort of people who would love the girls for themse...
2. CHAPTER TWO.The next day Mr Timmins arrived. He came by the train which reached Langdale at three o'clock. He invariably did come by that train. There was nothing at all remarkable in his p...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.While the girls were in London, Mrs Fortescue had by no means passed an idle day. She had meant to visit several friends with the avowed intention of talking about her young hei...
14. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Whether she was weak or not, whether she was angry or indifferent, Florence Heathcote shed very few tears. She came downstairs in that frock which was so like the colour of a ri...
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN.As long as she lived, Florence Heathcote never forgot that week which she spent with the Arbuthnots. They belonged to that noble race of people who live for others. They were no...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Brenda and Florence had both finished their school life. No pains had been spared to render them up to date in every particular. They had gone through the usual curriculum of a...
13. CHAPTER TWELVE.Mrs Fortescue was busily engaged answering letters which had come to her owing to an advertisement which she had put into _The Times_ and other daily papers to the effect that s...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Soon after lunch on that day Florence went out alone to execute some small commissions for Mrs Fortescue. She was wearing a sealskin cap and very _chic_ little sealskin jacket....
16. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.He knew where his son was lodging. Lieutenant Reid would have to join his regiment in two or three days, but the last few hours of his leave would be spent in his old rooms in S...
10. CHAPTER NINE."I have," answered Florence. She spoke almost flippantly. "I am very, very hungry. I hope you have a nice dinner, a specially nice dinner for us both to enjoy together to-night,...
9. did. He told me he could not even have looked at me if I had had aThe servant arranged the very tempting tea on a little table, and Susie stood up to perform her duties as hostess. She was certainly remarkably plain, but, somehow, no one ever...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.Mrs Fortescue's morning had been so exciting that she really could not settle down at searching through her house linen for possible or impossible holes during the afternoon. It...