Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.
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They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor abov...
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Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longin...
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No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children neve...
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...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.
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What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her own, so that she had to repeat t...
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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of...
