The Finishing Stroke (2013)
“Even the taller shrubs had only their crests showing. There was no sign of driveway or road. The drifts dipped and swooped in clean parabolas wherever the eye turned.
Most of the household were up early, exclaiming over the beautiful view from the bay windows and enjoying the Christmas day buffet breakfast prepared by Craig’s brawny cook-housekeeper, Mrs. Janssen, and served by the red-cheeked Irish maid. The dining room was noisy.
The Reverend Mr. Gardiner was disconsolate. He had missed celebrating his Christmas Eve mass in church after all. It had proved impossible to take a car out the night before, and even he had seen the folly of attempting to struggle through the drifts on foot. Craig had soothed his distress by switching the radio on at 11.30 p.m. and tuning in WOR so that he might hear the Choir Invisible and St Thomas’s carillon; and then at midnight they all joined the old clergyman in listening to the midnight mass being broadcast over WEAF from the Shrine of the Sacred Heart.
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