Lunch at Maxard’s
I parked the car behind Leicester Square and wondered again why I bothered to keep it up. It would be as cheap, and far more convenient, to rely on taxis. Just habit, I recognized, buying...
Category: Sam Youd
In solitary dignity
Helen was sitting in her window-seat, knitting, and surprisingly was quite alone. I took the cheque out of the envelope in which I’d placed it and handed it to her. She caught my eye as...
Meet the artist!
Lulu said, fairly loudly: ‘He has a water-colour temperament of course – pastel shades with subtle nuances of depth. And a wonderful instinct for group patterns.’ ‘And how young is he?’ Piers asked. She quite...
Don’t you wish you were free too?
He heard the crackle of frozen wood trampled underfoot, and looked up. Rosemary stood before him. She had come through the brush from the other side of the island. She stared at him gravely. He...
Perhaps it had got colder
They went out again into the fog and this time, coming from the fire-warmed room, he felt the bleakness of the frost and the damp air striking through, as it seemed, to his very thoughts....
Who comforts the comforter?
Lionel said: ‘I had hopes … you know … that the uniform, the glamour, might lift me a little towards her height. But it’s not a height, is it – in the sense we know....
Beyond thought and prudence
He went at last. Another waltz began and Rosemary smiled remotely at her, dancing past with a Robert vivacious again, the little flame leaping to a new conflagration. Behind her a voice said: ‘Ah, there...
Every dance after this with you
Robert said: ‘And I shall have every dance after this with you too.’ She looked at him curiously. The slack mouth was tightened into a quite unreal thinness, flesh wrinkled above the deep, close eyes....
Painting the world a little redder
‘How the afternoon drags. Find me something to do, Janey.’ ‘What are the others doing?’ she asked. Alfred stretched his arms behind his head. He recited: ‘John is in the attic painting, setting on canvas...
A good run!
He set Bucephalus to a gate, and felt the response of the horse with a delight that no response of woman had ever given him. Michael came up on his right, and with the excitement...