Posts Tagged ‘Katherine Mansfield’

Lunch was over by half-past one. By half-past two they were all ready for the fray. The green-coated band had arrived and was established in a corner of the tennis-court. "My dear!" trilled Kitty Maitland, "aren’t they too like frogs for words? You ought to have arranged them round the pond with the conductor in…

The envelope was found at last behind the dining-room clock, though how it had got there Mrs. Sheridan could not imagine. "One of you children must have stolen it out of my bag, because I remember vividly–cream cheese and lemon-curd. Have you done that?" "Yes." "Egg and–" Mrs. Sheridan held the envelope away from her.…

And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a moreperfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold,as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn,mowing the…