She consumed books like a whale eats krill.

“I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand…”

“I wanted to cry.I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous ba…”

“IT WAS ONE OF those glorious days in March when the air was so fresh that you w…”

“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names…”