They covered the other rooms in the basement first, looking behind rows of tins, sacks of potatoes and big sugar and flour canisters in the food store. The room that Hamilton had mentioned was a...

Hamilton stared at him, with what might be the beginning of anger. His nerves had been frayed, Jane thought, as all their nerves had, and she suspected that underneath the bonhomie there could be sensitivity...

They turned to head back in the direction of the chalet, and the east wind was bitterly cold on her exposed face. Pyjamas, she thought, and bare feet. He could not still be alive out...

‘There. He was there. I woke, and looked out, and I saw him.’ She turned to look into their faces, her own drawn, desperate. ‘I’m telling you the truth. I’m not mad! He was there.’...

When she awoke it was to the guilty realisation that, having dozed off like that, Ruth might have herself woken, and seen the glass on the table between them. This was the first part of...

‘Your clothes are over there, Steve. Would you like me to leave you to get washed and dressed? I’ll go down and see about rustling up some breakfast for you.’ ‘No!’ The edge of fear...

They came readily enough to his call. Diana skied up hard on the heels of Grainger, with Elizabeth trailing some twenty yards behind. She was glowing from the sharp air and the exercise and looked,...

‘Hypnotism,’ Grainger said, ‘is mesmerism, cleaned up and cut down to size. The point about mesmerism was that it involved what was called rapport – operator’s and subject’s minds all tangled up with each other,...

They reassembled in an atmosphere of gloom. Mandy was going about the house, lighting the oil lamps. They had seemed attractive at first, but now Douglas was more conscious of their inadequacy, of all the...

The silence between them, with this consideration, became awkward. He tried to think of something to say that would be suitable, but the words and phrases spun emptily in his mind, at once banal and...