日期：2025-01-30 Fourteen Oh, there you are, Lynn. Adelas voice was brisk and relieved. I didnt hear you come in, darling. Have you been in long? Oh, yes, ages. I was upstairs. I wish youd tell me when you come in, Lynn. Im always nervous when youre out alone after... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Thirteen On that particular Tuesday afternoon, Lynn Marchmont had gone for a long walk. Conscious of a growing restlessness and dissatisfaction with herself, she felt the need for thinking things out. She had not seen Rowley for some days. After the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Twelve When Rowley left the Stag his steps turned automatically in the direction of home, but after walking a few hundred yards, he pulled up short and retraced his steps. His mind took things in slowly and his first astonishment over Beatrices reve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Eleven Rowley opened the big mauve envelope with some surprise. Who on earth, he wondered, could be writing to him, using that kind of stationeryand how did they manage to get it, anyway? These fancy lines had surely gone right out during the war. D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 IV Inside room No. 5, David Hunter paused inside the door and looked at the man who had signed himself Enoch Arden. Fortyish, knocked about a bit, a suggestion of having come down in the worldon the whole a difficult customer. Such was Davids summin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 III Coming out of the office, Beatrice Lippincott called, Lily. An adenoidal girl with a giggle and pale boiled-gooseberry eyes responded to the summons. Can you manage for a bit, Lily? Ive got to see about some linen. Lily said, Oh, yes, Miss Lippi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II When David strode into the hall of the Stag that evening, there was, as was usual, no one about. A door at the left was marked Coffee Room, a door on the right was marked Lounge. A door farther along was marked repressively For Resident Guests On... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 III About nine-thirty that night, Rowley pushed aside a heap of forms that had been littering the kitchen table and got up. He looked absentmindedly at the photograph of Lynn that stood on the mantelpiece, then frowning, he went out of the house. Te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Nine I It was a fine morning. The birds were singing, and Rosaleen, coming down to breakfast in her expensive peasant dress, felt happy. The doubts and fears that had lately oppressed her seemed to have faded away. David was in a good temper, laughi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II At Long Willows Rowley Cloade had just finished making himself a cup of tea when a shadow falling across the kitchen table made him look up. If for just a moment he thought the girl standing just inside the door was Lynn, his disappointment turne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Eight I It was a week later that the 5:20 train drew into Warmsley Heath Station and a tall bronzed man with a knapsack got out. On the opposite platform a cluster of golfers were waiting for the up train. The tall bearded man with the knapsack gave... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II Cant you give it back, Mums? Really, Lynn darling! I went straight to the bank with it. And then I paid Arthurs and Bodgham and Knebworth. Knebworth was getting quite abusive. Oh, my dear, the relief! I havent been able to sleep for nights and ni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Seven I Rowley, can you let me have five hundred pounds? Rowley stared at Lynn. She stood there, out of breath from running, her face pale, her mouth set. He sat soothingly and rather as he would speak to a horse: There, there, ease up, old girl. Wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Six What was the Marchmont woman doing here? demanded David as soon as he got in. Oh, David. She wanted money dreadfully badly. Id never thought And you gave it her, I suppose. He looked at her in half-humorous despair. Youre not to be trusted alone... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Five David, when are we going back to London? When are we going to America? Across the breakfast table, David Hunter gave Rosaleen a quick surprised glance. Theres no hurry, is there? Whats wrong with this place? He gave a swift appreciative glance... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Four Aunt Kathies parties were always much the same. They had a rather breathless amateurish quality about them characteristic of the hostess. Dr. Cloade had an air of holding irritability in check with difficulty. He was invariably courteous to his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Three Money! said Lynn. Rowley Cloade nodded. He was a big square young man with a brick-red skin, thoughtful blue eyes and very fair hair. He had a slowness that seemed more purposeful than ingrained. He used deliberation as others use quickness of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Two Frances Cloade looked thoughtfully across the dinner table at her husband. Frances was forty-eight. She was one of those lean greyhound women who look well in tweeds. There was a rather arrogant ravaged beauty about her face which had no makeup... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II Yes, if only. Far away, Lynn had been shocked and grieved by the news of her uncles death, but the true significance of it was only now beginning to come home to her. For as long as she could remember, her life, all their lives, had been dominate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 BOOK I One I Warmsley Heath consists of a golf course, two hotels, some very expensive modern villas giving on to the golf course, a row of what were, before the war, luxury shops, and a railway station. Emerging from the railway station, a main roa... 阅读全文>>