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“Escapers were the cream of the crop.”
“This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.”
“A chaps impending death has a way of focusing the mind.”
“Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.”
“Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.”
“She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.”
“He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadnt shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.”
“Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living.thats the whole point of keeping papers. It doesnt matter if its a hundred years or only a few wee...”
“Didnt young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”
“It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.”
“Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasnt true.”
“Vesta was so good with paperwork you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and shed construct a story from it worthy of a novel.”
“Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.”
“The good thing about the aristocracy German or English was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.”
“Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, shed bolt.”
“Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.”
“If theres one shade a woman of colour cant wear its got to be the one everyone expects, hasnt it?”
“She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.”
“Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.”
“Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.”
