Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles…”

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agr…”

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in va…”

“As for describing the smell of a spaniel mixed with the smell of torches, laure…”