Winter Siege

Sometimes the snow was so deep that all work was stopped except the most essential, and Susan could no longer go to school with her little lantern through the fairy woods. They lived as remote and self-contained as the Swiss Family Robinson, on a white island, cut off from everything, the post, and the station……

Listening to Things Long Forgotten

The kitchen was the heart of the house, a large low-ceilinged room full of doors and windows and old oak, and people going to and fro. In the corner by the fireplace stood a settle with its paneled back covered and padded, and its seat a bed of blue- and white-check cushion. Under the ceiling……