Sublime

As it is, she never stops. Cooks and gardens and entertains and reads everything she can lay her hands on, and listens to music, and rings people up and has long, satisfying conversations. Sometimes she takes herself off abroad to stay with old friends. France, usually.

When I sold Oakley Street, I had plans to return to Cornwall. To buy a little granite cottage with a palm tree in the garden. But my children intervened and talked me out of it and finally my son-in-law found Podmore’s Thatch, and so, after all, I shall spend the twilight of my years in Gloucestershire, and not within sight and sound of the sea.”

Ein schriller Schrei durchdrang die Empfangshalle und erregte meine Aufmerksamkeit. Ich drehte mich auf dem Absatz um und rutschte fast aus, als ein kleines Mädchen aus der Lodge stürmte und über die Schwelle sprang wie eine furchtlose Bergsteigerin.

Now, there was nothing more to be done. She discovered that she was very tired, but it was a gentle tiredness, assuaged and comforted by her surroundings, as though her house were a kindly person, and she was being embraced by loving arms. In