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Sheila Kaye-Smith
Mrs. Gailey
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338076175
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All the heat of that summer's day seemed to burn on Doleham Valley station. The unshaded platform breathed like a stove, the flowers glared against the wall of the stationmaster's garden, the blue sky leaned and ached upon the roof.
"Best come inside, Mum, and sit down," said old Chaffage to Iris Winrow.
She smiled and shrugged her shoulders. The smile was a part of that duty of charm in which she had been brought up. The shrug was an appeal to masculine chivalry. It said: I am a helpless woman, still almost as beautiful as when I was young, now stranded many miles from home, but hoping that a kind, competent man will ring up Doleham Manor for me and find out what has happened.
Old Chaffage, however, was unschooled in any language but that of words.
"You sit here, Mum, and Miss Sale too, and I reckon Elphinstone will be along before many minutes."