Boscombe, March 28th--April 5th, 1919

CONTENTS

[SIMON AND SARAH]

[ELIZA]

[MAY]

[GEORDIE-AN'-JIM]

PART I

SIMON AND SARAH

I

Perhaps it would never have happened but for the day. A brave, buoyant day, with a racing wind, might have scattered the clinging obsession just in time. A tender, laughing day might have laid a healing finger on old sores. A clean, frosty day might have braced the naturally sane old mind. But Fate, out of all the days in the year, took upon itself to send just this.