The Tower: A Novel

Excerpt from The A Novel

Miss Langdon stood at her upper window looking out upon the Deanery garden. It was a secluded place, shut off from the surrounding college park by high hedges of glossy laurel willow; a spreading oak-tree threw a tender shade on its smooth green turf; the shrubbery was all in bloom, and the borders were gay with tulips and hyacinths, while a bed of lingering daffodils still made a sunny spot in one corner. Miss Lang-don closed her eyes; tears were smarting against the inner edge of her eyelids. All this youth and spring; these soft light breezes, the scent of the hyacinths, the satisfied yellow of the daffodils - how enragingly they hurt!

"Shall I take your things down on the south porch, Miss?" said the maid.

"I shall not go out this morning, Josephine; the wind is east."

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