Excerpt from That Sweet Enemy

We were grouped about our great-aunt, Theodosia, in the little book-room, which we preferred for its comfort to the drawing-room, that being difficult to heat and always smelling mustily in the corners. The drawing-room had double fireplaces, and even when both were lit one felt Shivery away from the Chimney corners. It used to be a joke of ours to call the room the map Of Africa, because no one ever penetrated to the middle of it, Skirting the coast-line rather to get to the fireplaces.

But the book-room was warm with even a little fire 'and the painted roses on the walls and groined ceilings of blue and gold, with roses for key-stones, helped one to a delusion of perpetual summer.

Whom did you say, Teague? Asked Aunt Theo dosia incredulously. Whom did you say? Be careful, sir, for this is no matter for jesting.

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