#3

It's official ~ if it wasn't before ~ I love the Maisie Dobbs series!  #3 is Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. (the third Maisie Dobbs book)  I read it as an actual, I have to turn the pages by hand, book.  There are three different story lines...possibly four, in this book & it's interesting how they overlap & relate.  Still very much dealing with the after effects of The Great War and women's roles in society.
Quote Time:
dedication page:
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
to speak dishonorable is pardonable.
                       ~ Sophocles

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.
                ~ Carl Sandburg
p47 ~ Mrs. Browning had enjoyed a slender figure in girlhood but had reached an age when some restraint in food consumption might be advised.  {HA!}
p146~ Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.  {pretty sure I quoted that in an earlier book...but worth repeating}

fl: The young policewoman stood in the corner of the room.  ll: I will remember them.