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‘My dear Joe, intervention in human affairs is something that always requires a great deal of justification, and generally offers very little. The man who intervenes is himself suspect – rightly so because his motives...
Billy put the tray down on the table beside Willeway’s deck-chair. He said: ‘Here you are, sir. Tea and muffins. Dripping with butter.’ They were: the butter had soaked golden into the honeycombed surface and...
Lydia had been watching Tony Marriott: his eyes had not left the curve of Susan’s breast, under the wrap, since she came out. When Sweeney spoke his name, interrogatively, he looked at him abstractedly. ‘How...
Sweeney said: ‘Captain Cranach has sold me the Diana. I shall be running her myself.’ ‘But you can’t,’ Susan said, ‘can you?’ ‘I was at sea,’ Sweeney said, ‘as a younger man. My ticket is still valid.’
She had chosen to remain on board because she did not feel like sight-seeing or merry-making, and because Marriott had been so persistent in pressing her to come with them. She considered how much she...
An elaborate cold buffet had been laid out in the dining-room. Marriott waited until the ladies had been served, and then made his own selection. The choice was wide and many of the items exotic:...
Nadya moved forward until she was quite close to Mary. She was smiling slightly. She said softly: ‘Are you not grateful? I brought you food. And I brought you back your man.’ ‘You can keep...
‘It is more than a week since my body was clean, and I found soap out there in the pantry.’ He helped her to put the bath down beside the stove. She looked at him....
This was the time to get away. Mouritzen called to Nadya: ‘This way! We will escape while they are fighting.’ But instead of coming towards him, she threw herself against the flank of the polar...
Thorsen continued to stare into the crevasse. Nadya called up: ‘It is still sinking.’ ‘We must lose no time,’ Mouritzen said. ‘I will go first. You come after me, by the same route.’ He eased...