The Lady’s Maid

By Cecilia Brabin | January 18, 2018

  Eleven o’clock. A knock at the door…I hope I haven’t disturbed you,madam. You weren’t asleep–were you? But I’ve just given my lady her tea,and there was such a nice cup over, I thought, perhaps… …Not at all, madam. I always make a cup of tea last thing. She drinksit in bed after her prayers…

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Her first Ball

By Cecilia Brabin | January 11, 2018

Her first BallAuthor: Katherine Mansfield   Exactly when the ball began Leila would have found it hard to say. Perhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with the Sheridan girls and their brother. She sat back in her ownlittle corner of it, and the bolster…

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A Christmas story

By Cecilia Brabin | December 21, 2017

The Gold Wrapping Paper – An Inspirational Short Christmas Story Once upon a time, there was a man who worked very hard just to keep food on the table for his family. This particular year a few days before Christmas, he punished his little five-year-old daughter after learning that she had used up the family’s…

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The Three Strangers episode 4

By Cecilia Brabin | November 30, 2017

    All listened. The sound was repeated, and none of them spoke but the man in the chimney-corner, who said quietly, "I’ve often been told that in this county they fire a gun at such times: but I never heard it ’til now." "I wonder if it is my man?" murmured the personage in…

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The Three Strangers episode 3

By Cecilia Brabin | November 23, 2017

    The catastrophe of having the mug drained dry at one pull by the stranger in cinder-gray was effectually guarded against this time by Mrs Fennel. She poured out his allowance in a small cup, keeping the large one at a discreet distance from him. When he had drunk his portion the shepherd renewed…

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