The Admirals' Game (2012)
“Looking into his bright eyes and open cheerful countenance, albeit with a crooked nose, she experienced a pang of jealousy for a lad, not much younger than she, who seemed to enjoy such a carefree existence; at one time she was of a like nature. Reprising events these last few months it seemed as though the world had closed in around her. How distant home life now seemed, how far off the days when her major worry was how to persuade her financially constrained parents of the absolute necessity ...of a visit to the dressmaker.
Perhaps her cares dated from the day it was made plain that her distant relation, Ralph Barclay, might make a suitable husband. That was something which could not have been mooted had he not mentioned the possibility to her father, who no doubt, in turn, consulted her mother. How subtly it had been done, the insinuation into the proposal the fact that the house in which they all lived was entailed to the Barclay family, and since the parent had passed on, the rather severe-looking naval captain now had the right to claim the place as part of his inheritance; in short, if enforced, the family would be homeless.MoreLess
Perhaps her cares dated from the day it was made plain that her distant relation, Ralph Barclay, might make a suitable husband. That was something which could not have been mooted had he not mentioned the possibility to her father, who no doubt, in turn, consulted her mother. How subtly it had been done, the insinuation into the proposal the fact that the house in which they all lived was entailed to the Barclay family, and since the parent had passed on, the rather severe-looking naval captain now had the right to claim the place as part of his inheritance; in short, if enforced, the family would be homeless.MoreLess
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