Corpse in a Gilded Cage
“Here steps would be found leading to the Great Entrance Hall (for the imposing Queen’s Entrance on the West Front led to nothing more than a dingy ante-room, whatever it may have opened up to in the Danish Queen’s time). In the courtyard and the lawns around it, making no impact on their manifest need for gardeners’ attention, the Earl pottered on the afternoon of his family’s arrival, trying to conceal a broad grin at the humour of it all. Friday afternoon was well advanced before Joan and Dig...by drove carefully into the courtyard and parked the car neatly and unobtrusively under the windows of the Blenheim Wing. Joan got out first, closed the door carefully, patted at the creases in her skirt, then finally looked around at the time-mellowed brick glories of the Jacobean house, and the more stately splendour of the wing, executed by Leoni in the early years of George I’s reign.
‘Very nice, Dad,’ she said, and set her mouth into a self-satisfied smile of the kind that was habitual to her.MoreLess
‘Very nice, Dad,’ she said, and set her mouth into a self-satisfied smile of the kind that was habitual to her.MoreLess
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