There were announcements of concerts and plays and first-nights and private views; there were even small dances.

There were advertisements of house-boats and week-end cottages and string bands for garden parties.

It struck me that it was rather like merrymaking with a dead body lying in the house." "Yeovil," said the doctor, "you must bear in mind two things.

First, the necessity for the life of the country going on as if nothing had happened.

It is true that many thousands of our working men and women have emigrated and thousands of our upper and middle class too; they were the people who were not tied down by business, or who could afford to cut those ties.