Love Or Duty
“He was only in his early fifties but sometimes he looked like an old man, his face drawn and grey, his eyes circled with charcoal smudges. She knew there was something wrong, although he refused to discuss it. She just couldn’t think what the problem was, especially as the building trade seemed to be booming. In the past few years the west end of the town had expanded to join up with the neighbouring village of Elmham. And the houses being built were large four and five-bedroomed weekend ‘cotta...ges’ with their own private beaches.
Charlton and Spencer had secured the contract to build another one only last week, so why did they seem to be so short of money? Stanley had started building in a small way, developing from the small brick-making business he had inherited from his father. He had trained as an architect and surveyor and, on her walks around the town, Louise was always proud that her father had been responsible, not only for much of the housing built since the great war, but for some of Holton’s civic buildings too.MoreLess
Charlton and Spencer had secured the contract to build another one only last week, so why did they seem to be so short of money? Stanley had started building in a small way, developing from the small brick-making business he had inherited from his father. He had trained as an architect and surveyor and, on her walks around the town, Louise was always proud that her father had been responsible, not only for much of the housing built since the great war, but for some of Holton’s civic buildings too.MoreLess
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