Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence,as if their marital life had merely been cast into temporary abeyance.

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn…”

“Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion,if you let me. If I have to…”

“the way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. A…”

“Mrs Farleigh," he called. She stopped and gave him her shoulder, not quite meet…”