A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.