In the opening lines of The Cuckoo Clock, Mrs Molesworth paints a word-picture of a house so old that Time itself seemed to have stopped.

Marguerite, Lady Blakeney, is powerless to intervene as her husband Sir Percy walks into a trap.

If officials in the Raj ever forgot who their boss was, they would bring the whole government down about their ears.

The offices of the Cheeryble Brothers are humming with excitement over two upcoming weddings, and Tim Linkinwater finds the mood is catching.

Jaikie has just graduated from Cambridge, and Alison wants to know what he has gained from his experience.

Kitty Beighton enters an archery contest where the prize is one very beautiful bracelet and one very ugly Commissioner.