White Turrets

A large--too large for the present purpose at least--concert-room in a public building, very far from well filled, and somewhat dimly lighted; the dimness aggravated by a suspic...

Eric Balderson was awaiting his mother--not impatiently, he was never impatient about anything--in the drawing-room, as she had foreseen when they went in. And so was tea, thank...

"Not very far," said Celia, smiling, and colouring a little. "I was very much entertained by watching all the people round the table, and perhaps I was thinking mostly of poor o...

"Winifred," said Mrs Balderson, the next morning but one, at the breakfast-table, "here is something that will please you, I think," and she held out to Miss Maryon a letter she...

Lady Campion's drawing-room continued to fill--to fill and to empty--for as some went out, others came in. And everywhere and at all moments, Hertha Norreys was surrounded and e...

Miss Norreys had a tiny home of her own, at some considerable distance from the Balderson mansion, which was about as far west as it could be to be yet in a thoroughly good posi...

A clear, mild, late-autumn morning in the country--clear, though the sunshine, what there is of it, is thin and pallid; mild, yet with a certain slow chill in the air which is n...

"I can't make it out," she said to herself. "It seems so odd and inconsistent. And--I have not done so very much for her after all. They write as if I were her dearest friend, a...

Hertha felt stupefied: but she had the presence of mind to say nothing more, and to wait for the further development of this extraordinary mystification. Winifred, evidently in...

Miss Norreys's mind, though a remarkably well-balanced one, was yet far from phlegmatic or unimpressionable. So far, indeed, from such did she know her inner self to be, that sh...

The sun-dial stood on the grass in front of, though at some little distance from, the principal entrance. For at White Turrets the ground immediately round the house was too muc...

Miss Norreys found the sheltered corner she was in search of, and then she read her letter. It was a very long one, full of interest to her for reasons besides those affecting W...