Status Updates From Trouble for Lucia

I'm so glad to be back in Lucia's world!

“Georgie felt the sensation, that now was becoming odiously familiar, of being hunted... Life for him was losing that quality of leisure, which gave one time to feel busy and ready to take so thrilled an interest in the minute happenings of the day. Lucia was poisoning that eager fount by this infusion of mayoral duties and responsibilities, and tedious schemes for educational lectures and lighting of the streets.”

“Lucia tried to picture herself bereft of that eager daily interchange of gossip, when her Tilling circle of friends bustled up and down the high street, carrying their market baskets and bumping into each other in the narrow doorways of shops. Rain or shine…it was the bracing hour that whetted the appetite for the complications of life. The idea of missing it was unthinkable…”