Excerpt from The Singing CaptivesWhen Lady Peel rang the changes thus upon her favourite word of the moment not only her eldest son, Roden, but her husband, Sir Harold, her nephew, Evelyn Cashel, and her daughters, Caroline and Stella, sat in a silence which was neither alert nor embarrassed nor partisan, but merely profoundly indifferent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.