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A Stranger in Honeyfield (Honeyfield #2) QUOTES

A Stranger in Honeyfield (Honeyfield #2) QUOTES

1 " wall.’ ‘Nice to meet you. I’m Mrs Tesworth.’ ‘Bless you, we all know your name by now. Mrs Saunders made sure of that after she met you and your husband.’ He chuckled. ‘Can’t keep anything private in this village.’ ‘Oh. Right.’ She hoped he was wrong about that. ‘I locked that gate in your back wall when Miss Thorburn died and took away the key. Can’t be too careful these days, can you? My wife’s been wondering if you’d like the key back or whether you’d rather leave the gate locked. "

― Anna Jacobs , A Stranger in Honeyfield (Honeyfield #2)

2 " I’ll tell you frankly, Spencer Cotterell and his mother can be difficult. There’s no hiding the fact that his spiteful nature is well known and he’s become even more bitter since he failed the army medical. As for his mother, she’s a cunning woman who likes to get her own way.’ ‘I’ve been unhappy myself since Philip died,’ she said quietly, ‘but I don’t take it out on other people or try to cheat them. I shall do nothing to provoke his family but I don’t need to think about selling the cottage and car to them. I shan’t change my mind.’ She wasn’t telling him anything about her possible complication, not if she didn’t have to. But if what she was beginning to suspect was true, she would definitely need somewhere to live. ‘Is that all?’ ‘An old lady who was living at a village called Honeyfield died a couple of months ago. This Miss Thorburn was a close friend of Miss Gordon – the lady who left Philip the house in Malmesbury – and left everything she owned to her. I didn’t trouble Philip at the time, because he was involved at Verdun and had enough on his mind, and Miss Gordon seemed in excellent health. But her unexpected death meant that Philip inherited everything that Miss Gordon owned, which now, "

― Anna Jacobs , A Stranger in Honeyfield (Honeyfield #2)