"THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station a…"

"The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"