Quotes from Jean Stubbs

A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought

She felt the press of friendly hands, the murmur of friendly voices. No one minded. Everyone understood. As

Social life almost ceased. Even in church, each worshipper was wary of his neighbour.

Only devotion prevailed against the terror. Love might and must yield in flesh, but never in spirit. The mother rocked her tortured child and was afraid of nothing but to be separated from it. Husband nursed wife in secret and in secret gave a kiss to the lips that would infect him. Whole families locked and bolted themselves inside their homes and defended the privilege of dying together.