The Wheels of Time — Florence L. Barclay

The Wheels of Time

A Charmingly touching Story by Florence Barclay

It is a prequel to The Rosary.

Dr. Deryck Brand stood, with his hand on the door-knob, looking back into his wife's boudoir. There was nothing in that room suggestive of town or of town life and work--delicate green and white, a mossy carpet, masses of spring flowers; cool, soft, noiseless, fragrant. Standing in the doorway, the doctor could hear the agitated clang of the street-door bell, Stoddart crossing the hall, the opening and closing of the door, and Stoddart's subdued and sympathetic voice saying: "Step this way, please." A heavy, depressed foot, or an anxious, hurried one...