The Witness On the Roof (2016)
“In a minute she came back. Miss Davenant was better; she would be glad to see her ladyship.
In the hall, Sturgess, the old butler who had been in the service of the Davenants when Joan’s mother was a child, was waiting to receive her. He looked whiter—older, Joan thought as she greeted him pleasantly. Mrs. Davenant’s death and the changes that had come since had tried him sorely.
Evelyn was in the boudoir. The furniture was precisely as it had been in Mrs. Davenant’s time, but the new m...istress had contrived, even in this short time, to infuse an atmosphere of subtle change. The wide couch that had always stood in the recess between the windows had been pulled before the fire and piled with cushions brought in from the drawing-room; great pots of flowering plants stood everywhere; some exquisite old china that had been the pride of Mrs. Davenant’s heart was standing on the writing-table. The air was heavy with the scent of hothouse flowers mingling with the perfume Evelyn affected and the stale smell of her endless cigarettes.MoreLess
In the hall, Sturgess, the old butler who had been in the service of the Davenants when Joan’s mother was a child, was waiting to receive her. He looked whiter—older, Joan thought as she greeted him pleasantly. Mrs. Davenant’s death and the changes that had come since had tried him sorely.
Evelyn was in the boudoir. The furniture was precisely as it had been in Mrs. Davenant’s time, but the new m...istress had contrived, even in this short time, to infuse an atmosphere of subtle change. The wide couch that had always stood in the recess between the windows had been pulled before the fire and piled with cushions brought in from the drawing-room; great pots of flowering plants stood everywhere; some exquisite old china that had been the pride of Mrs. Davenant’s heart was standing on the writing-table. The air was heavy with the scent of hothouse flowers mingling with the perfume Evelyn affected and the stale smell of her endless cigarettes.MoreLess
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