Excerpts from the Book 'Tenterhooks':

... then, if they take to each other, practically live together for weeks after. No matter what social engagements they may happen to have, these are all ...
... campaign. But she did not like carrying out in detail her plans. She liked to be the architect, not the workman. For example, the small household ...
... wish, to spoil-to-' 'And is that really why you're going?' she asked gently. 'You're forcing me to answer you.' 'And shall you ...
... he cried. 'Never-never! It's the real thing there never was anyone like you, there never will be. Let me look at you once more....Oh, Edith! ...
... I promise you, dear, I'll never ask you again, never as long as I live. But I've a fancy to read this particular letter. Why not just gratify it? ...
... It was not his nature to dwell on his own sensations. He would diagnose them quickly and acutely, and then throw them aside. He was quickly bored ...
... to do the cure thoroughly, and suggesting that they should call the little girl Matilda, after a rich and sainted-though still living-aunt of Edith's. ...
... pretend he had meant it seriously. Archie called his sister Dilly. Archie had been rather hurt at the-as it seemed to him-unnecessary excitement ...
... 'You're far too good and kind to me. But I have suffered-awfully.' 'So have I, since this morning. I felt-' 'What did you feel? Tell me!' ...
... answered Edith. 'Will you have to get a new Miss Townsend?' 'I thought of being their governess myself-during the holidays, anyhow.' ...
... she had had such trouble lately-terrible trouble. The man she had been devoted to for years had suddenly thrown her over, heartlessly.... What a brute ...
... and send it off,' she said, 'and all the worst of your troubles will be over.' 'I should think the worst is yet to come,' said he ruefully. ...
... fantastic telegrams and signing them, for no reason, with an initial?... Tenterhooks CHAPTER XXVI. Goggles 'What divine ...
... smiling at the absurdity of it,' he will get along all right yet.' 'Edith, you're beyond me,' said Aylmer. 'I give up understanding you.' ...
... days Aylmer was not so peacefully happy. His devotion was assiduous, silent, discreet, and sometimes his feelings were almost uncontrollable, but ...
... the matter was settled by a cordial letter from Mrs Mitchell, asking them to dinner on the following Thursday, and saying she feared there had been ...
... creatures, or quaint creatures, for which he found the strangest names. He told Dilly about them, but Dilly was not his audience-she was rather ...
... Bruce came in at last, evidently engaged in an absorbed and intimate conversation with Aylmer Ross. They seemed so much interested in their talk ...
... quite springy?' said Edith, as she glanced at the window. 'It's one of those sort of warm days that seem to have got mixed up by mistake with the ...
... is a 40-day Christian devotional designed to strengthen marriages. Each daily devotion includes scripture, a statement of principle, the day's dare, ...