A Case of Grave Danger Quotes

“None were names that I recognised, but I had to say they all had a fancy ring to them. They didn’t sound like the names of your average man on the street, or the penniless man in the workhouse. Yet”
― Sophie Cleverly, A Case of Grave Danger

“No matter how long and how dark and how cold the winter, the spring always comes.”
― Sophie Cleverly, A Case of Grave Danger

“removing his hat. ‘I’ve – I’ve been sacked,’ she said, sinking down on to the steps. ‘The mistress won’t even give me a reference. I can’t believe it! I should have known!’ Her mouth was going at a mile a minute. ‘That woman told me this would happen, said it was what they’ve done to everyone else and they know girls like me are too far from home to get help, but oh my, I had to be foolish. But I needed this job and what with the master gone I thought things would get better and …’ Bones barked again. Oliver tilted his head. ‘You worked for the Comely-Parsons?’ ‘Y-yes,’ the maid stuttered through her tears. Alarm bells were ringing in my head. ‘What did you say about a woman?’ She sniffed again. Her hair was falling out of its tidy bun and she tried in vain to push it back in. ‘A-a lady,’ she hiccuped, fumbling with her hairpin. ‘She was standing outside here when I came about the job advertisement. She told me I shouldn’t work for them.’ The maid waved up at Windermere House. ‘Said they’d just treat me badly and then sack me.”
― Sophie Cleverly, A Case of Grave Danger