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272 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1947
Overhead more stars appeared, blurred and bright, although on earth the mist remained thick; it lay clouded among the trees and over the fields; the breath from the nostrils of the horses showed mist within mist. The air stung and clung to the face. Perhaps it was clearing overhead in preparation for a more intense cold. The pastor, still thinking of Vibeke, wished they might travel faster.Later, on the same page, she uses a man's thoughts to reinforce her purpose in writing this novel.
Through the darkness faces appeared to him, touched with spring sunlight, touched with tears, and an old sorrow and longing that he thought he had put aside resumed its old power. He thought, “The past is never dead. Within ourselves it becomes a part of ourselves, and lives as we do, and beyond us it becomes a part of the popular speech. When the story is forgotten, the phrase survives. ‘As kind as Sören Qvist.’"I feel fortunate to have found this, and I look forward to the others in her Cases of Circumstantial Evidence. My rating is a full robust 5 stars.