Encounters

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Barbara Erskine. Encounters

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Preface

A Step Out of Time

Visitors

Cabbage à la Carte

Metamorphosis

Feline Express

The Consolation Prize

The Valentine’s Day Plot

‘There was a time when I was almost happy …’

Summer Treachery

Trade Reunions

All You Need To Do Is Smile

The Bath – A Summer Ghost Story

A Private Ceremony

The Green Leaves of Summer

Encounters

The Touch of Gold

The Helpless Heart

The Indian Summer of Mary McQueen

The Magic of Make Believe

Destiny

A Summer Full of Poppies

A Face in the Crowd

A Woman’s Choice

Flowers Shouldn’t Make You Cry

Footsteps in the Attic

Someone to Dream About

A Fair Revenge

Milestones

The Magic Carpet

The Proposal

Spaces

Marcus Nicholls

Salesmanship!

A Quest For Identity

Such A Silly Thing

The Heart Will Understand

Party Games

A Stranger With No Name

Just An Old-Fashioned Girl

All This Childish Nonsense

A Love Story

A Window on the World

A Promise of Love

Excavations

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‘So. That just leaves the gardens.’ William had escorted them finally back to the kitchen via the second staircase. Checking the door into the west wing, he noted that the bolts were all firmly closed. ‘As you probably noticed when you came in they were once very beautiful. With some care and attention they could bloom again.’

He led them back to the front door and down the steps. The sun was high, beating on the gravel with the white reflective heat more commonly associated with a Mediterranean afternoon than with an English countryside, even in August.

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