Reluctant sinners / by Sidney Fairway.

  • Fairway, Sidney, 1879-1947.
Date:
1934
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Reluctant sinners / by Sidney Fairway. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    football, but that won’t interest you. . . . Raid on a jeweller’s shop in Putney. . . She went out for some more milk, and missed the next item, which referred to a new cure for some bone disease of which Mr. Pennyman had never heard. When she came back he had started on a cross-word puzzle. Mrs. Jordan was suffering from bronchitis and sent a message to say that she was unable to come. It was one of the recurring trivialities which made Pat want Anne back again—the girl had been with her long enough to leave a gap and to-day Pat was not feeling too good. She did not blame her father very much, but the whole thing had been so sordid and foolish. Nature could be very cruel. There was Sylvia drifting into chronic invalidism and her father into premature senility. Three years ago they were both perfectly well and happy. All the day she was busy, for on Wednesday they always ‘turned out’ the dining-room, and Pat was a methodical person. She folded the paper and placed it on the heap from which it would ultimately be taken to light the fire. For a moment, in the afternoon, she picked it up again, but the bell rang and a friend came in to tea. When she went away it was time to get supper ready. It is possible that Patricia would never have seen the article which Dr. Marable inspired had the weather been less typically November. But the month was living up to its reputation ; it was cold, damp and foggy. The trees shed sooty tears on casual pedestrians ; opulent business men shivered on crowded suburban platforms, anathematizing the fog-service which would nullify their first-class privi¬ leges ; handkerchiefs were at a premium and tempers too threadbare to be decent. Pat, with Mrs. Jordan still in the clutches of bron-