Quotes from Susan Green

Aren't you going to look at it, Verity?" asked Miss Deane. Slowly, I unwrapped it. I saw a small, slim girl with serious eyes and a little pointed face, wearing her second-best dress and posed stiffly beside an artificial rosebush. Standing behind her, rising out of a sort of mist, was a fair-haired young man in a white shirt. There was no doubt as to who it was. It was my half-brother Alexander, and he was smiling.

He didn't know why I was laughing. "What is so funny, chérie?" "What's lost is found, darling Papa," I said, kissing him ever so gently. "At last, what's lost is found.

Where there's life, there's hope," I said. Hope. How I'd needed it, in those dark days when it seemed that Papa would never be found, dead or alive. I thought of Alexander again. "Thank you," I whispered.

Come on," said Papa. "Let's go home.

There was another interruption. Mrs Reilly flung open the double doors and announced in a despairing tone, "If yez don't come now, the beef'll be burned to blazes. It's up to you." She turned on her heel and stalked off. "In other words," said SP, "luncheon is served.

Andrew watched her out of the room as if he could hardly bear to see her go. "What a fool I've been," he said, for the fiftieth time. "They say we're all fools in love," said Miss Deane to me later. "What do you mean?" "Andrew Ross and Mrs O'Day – I wouldn't be surprised if they make a match of it one day.