'We must be very nice to him,' said Mrs. Braithwaite, looking up at her daughter with large blue ...

'I'll set my face against all female society, if that will reassure you. But,' he added firmly, '...

Hermia was discovering how inconveniently small the world was and wondered fretfully how it was t...

'I don't know what's got into everyone this morning,' said Helen Goudge crossly.

'Well, I see it like this,' returned Priscilla with great animation. 'He needs help in saving his...

Felicity plunged in with a torch and looked round. 'Heavens! What a mess! How absolutely thrillin...

Bel sighed. 'I adored the house the moment I saw it ... There was no need to look at it properly ...

'[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep,' we fretted.But...

When she turned round I saw that she had a carving knife in her hand.Why has Pelham Hargrave retu...

'I'd like to be an actor,' I said.'Be an actor?' my father said. 'Good God, you can't even speak....

Billy had said the word 'murder'. Worse, he'd said 'serial murder'. This was definitely not a gam...

'I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had ...