The Weatherhouse

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Nan Shepherd. The Weatherhouse

Contents

Introduction

The Main Characters. THE YOUNG PROTAGONISTS

THE LADIES AT THE WEATHERHOUSE

FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

The Prologue

ONE

TWO

Proposal for a Party

The January Christmas Tree

Knapperley

Coming of Spring

Problem set for Garry

Tea at The Weatherhouse

Why Classroom Doors should be Kept Locked

Compeared before the Session

The Andrew Lorimers go to the Country

Andrew Lorimer does the Same

Garry and his Two Fools on the Housetop

Concert Pitch

Proverbial

April Sunrise

Whom the Gods Destroy

The Epilogue

GLOSSARY

About the Author. THE WEATHERHOUSE

Copyright

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Introduction

The Prologue

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Concerning Charley Falconer she told herself an endless story. The tragedy of her brief married life lay in the clash between her story and the truth. Charley was very ordinary and a little cheap. He dragged her miserably from one lodging to another, unstable, but with a certain large indifference to his own interests that exposed his memory to Craigmyle and Lorimer contempt, when at his death Ellen could no longer deny how poor she was.

She came back to her mother’s house, dependent, the more so that she had a child; at bitter variance with herself. She had been forced up against a grinding poverty, a shallow nature and a life without dignity. By the time she returned home her father was dead, the Weatherhouse built and Theresa comfortably settled as its genius. Ellen found herself tolerated. Power was too sweet to this youngest sister who had had none: the widowed and deprived was put in her place. Since that place was the odd-shaped upstairs room, Ellen did not grumble; but Theresa’s management made it perhaps a trifle harder for her to come to terms with the world. Her own subordinate position in the house was subtly a temptation: it sent her back to refuge in her imaginings. After a time the rancour and indignity of her married years faded out. She thought she was experienced in life, but in truth she had assimilated nothing from her suffering, only dismissed it and returned to her dreams.

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