After that, she could turn almost joyously for Mr.Liversedge's hearty hand-shake.
"You have come like a sort of snow-queen," said Tobias, with unusual imaginativeness, pointing to the windows.

"It must have begun just as you got here." Perhaps the chill of her fingers prompted him to this poetical flight.
His wife, who had noticed the same thing, added, with practical fervour: "I only hope the house is thoroughly dry.

We have had great fires everywhere for more than a fortnight.

As for the snow and frost, you are pretty well used to that, no doubt." Painfully on the alert, Lilian of course understood this allusion to the Northern land she was supposed to have quitted recently.
"Even at Stockholm," she replied, with a smile, "there is summer, you know." "And in Russia, too, I have heard," laughed Mr.Liversedge.

"But one doesn't put much faith in such reports.