The Chocolate Box

jeune fille tout à fait comme il faut

playwright. She is best known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short

John Wilson had the means. Saint Alard had the motive

It was a wild night. Outside, the wind howled malevolently, and the rain beat against the windows in great gusts.

I had suffered often at his hands, but I, too, though not possessing the finest brain in Europe, could afford to be magnanimous!

things of the past—old grudges—old love-affairs.’

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.’