Every one was very kind to me. Dazed as I was, I appreciated that. I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If ...
In the succeeding weeks I was a good deal bored.Mrs. Flemming and her friends seemed to me to be supremely uninteresting. They talked for hours of the...
Nobody came forward to identify the dead woman. The inquest elicited the following facts.Shortly after one o’clock on January 8th, a well-dresse...
In the first heat of indignation I found my next step unexpectedly easy to tackle. I had had a half-formed plan in my head when I went into Scotland Y...
I went home with a feeling of exultation. My scheme had succeeded far better than I could possibly have hoped. Lord Nasby had been positively genial. ...
Shaking off the feelings that oppressed me, I went quickly upstairs. I had no difficulty in finding the room of the tragedy. On the day the body was d...
(Extracts from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler, M.P.)It is an extraordinary thing that I never seem to get any peace. I am a man who likes a quiet lif...
(Anne’s Narrative Resumed)It is most undignified for a heroine to be sea-sick. In books the more it rolls and tosses, the better she likes it. W...
I was violently excited. I was sure that I had hit on the right trail at last. One thing was clear, I must not move out of the cabin. The asaf?tida ha...
There were no further excitements that night. I had breakfast in bed and got up late the next morning. Mrs. Blair hailed me as I came on deck.Good-mor...