‘Be careful what you wish for’, they say, and there could be no more endearing example.

A fox terrier spies what looks like a hapless victim – until he gets up close.

Anne Elliot is mortified to hear Frederick Wentworth’s opinion of her, but manages to find comfort in his words.

John Buchan’s dashing adventurer Sandy Arbuthnot didn’t think much of foreign policy after the Great War.

Sir Mulberry Hawk’s coarse conduct towards Kate Nickleby has awoken a spark of decency in Lord Frederick Verisopht.

English lawyer Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in place of a French aristocrat.