‘I’ve bad news for you, President!’ Joan Shirley walked into the big hall at Broadway End, where Cicely sat on the settle by the fire, awaiting her and gazing sombrely into the flames. ‘Oh?’ the President...

“I don’t like the look of that sky!” said Miss Deane, with a worried glance at the clouds creeping up. “We’re a long way from home. I wonder if we could find shelter in the village over there?” The tennis...

“I won’t! I won’t go! And if you ask her to have me, I’ll run away!” and scarlet with anger, her face working with distress, Maidlin rushed away into the abbey and hid herself in a corner. Ann Watson,...

“You’ll come, won’t you, old thing?” “Of course she’ll come. We couldn’t go to the pictures without her. Six o’clock at the corner, all of you!” “I can’t manage it before half-past,” and Biddy Devine...

“Good-bye! Good luck to you! I hope they’ll be nice!” “If they aren’t, come straight to us in Devonshire!” Kitty called shrilly after the outgoing train. Ruth laughed and waved her hand again. “I’ll wire...

“That’s done it!” and Dick came gloomily out from beneath the car. “Oh, Dick, what’s wrong? Can’t we go on?” wailed Sheila from the back seat. Della leaned over the side. “What’s up, old chap? Is it serious?”...

“One for me! A dozen for Chris, as usual,” and Betty McLean laid her sister’s letters on the breakfast-table and sat down. “Mine’s a fat one, anyway!” The sun was streaming into the morning-room, and...

“Then I can’t go to dancing to-night?” Cecily’s voice shook. She hardly ever cried, but this had been an unexpected blow. “I sh’d say not! Shouldn’t think you’d have the face to go, after last week,”...

The three girls in the corners of the railway carriage stopped talking, as the train drew up in Wycombe station, and a fourth girl got in and took the vacant corner. The first three had talked excitedly...

The Squirrel Tea-house was empty. Audrey, in a pretty green overall, stood gazing across the flagged courtyard to the lane. She was tired after a busy afternoon, and her face was clouded with disappointment....