Chapter 26 No.26

The house had stood for a century and a half, and for eighty years had been inhabited by Mortons. Of its neighbours in the elm-bordered road, one or two were yet older; all had reached the age of mellowness. 'Sicut umbra praeterit dies'-so ran the motto of the dial set between porch and eaves; to Harvey Rolfe the kindliest of all greetings, welcomi