Top Highlights

• There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.
• In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
• days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James’s Park on a fine morning—indeed they did.
• “a very communicative, literate, letter writing, visiting, articulate, late nineteenth century world.”
• “the first really lived year of my life,”