The Dreaming Suburb Quotes

“of Number Four. “Well now,” she thought, “things seem to be in a terrible muddle, but there are always the pictures. Whenever things get unbearable I’ll slip down to the Odeon, even if I have to come home before the supporting picture and the news.” Judith returned to the Avenue when she had official confirmation of Tim’s death. She would have returned soon enough in any case, for Maud Somerton engaged a new assistant when Judy put her wedding forward from New Year’s Day to September, on account of the war, and Tim’s enlistment. But now, like everything else, the riding-school business was in the doldrums, and Maud was talking of selling off horses, and economising all round. When she was told that Tim had been drowned in a troopship off the Western Approaches, Judy had been unable to cry. Instead she had saddled up Jason, the big chestnut, and ridden out to the corner of”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Dreaming Suburb