«Crooked House / Скрюченный домишко. Книга для чтения на английском языке» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 5

if by that way safety could be assured.

poisoning—not down in black and white—but

an accurate account of what happened?’

She—she gets things out of proportion

It was one of the things she was sly about.’

If I’m ever in extremis I’ll apply to the head of the family’—he grinned at her engagingly—‘but

She swept out to the hall.

I remembered Edith de Haviland’s ruthless foot grinding bindweed into the earth

It was not until three days later that I unburdened myself to my father

go on strutting about the house