About this story
For your birthday, your brother arrives with Geoffrey and his blunt friend Adam Warwick for two rough days rowing upriver, sleeping wherever the party sleeps. Past midnight in a shared barn, driven out by the heat, you feel someone lie down within reach — and get no answer when you whisper your brother's name.
How it opens
At nine, you remained in bed because no offered occupation seemed worth rising for.
Prue YuleBreakfast, the garden, your drawing, and fifty calls all require attention.
Each remedy sounded like another approved shape into which your day should be pressed.
Prue YuleThen come welcome Geoffrey Moor, home after losing his sister abroad.
Prue YuleIf nothing else, his old house is one place you cannot claim already bores you.
Choose
I visited the house yesterday before its master arrived.
Leave me one quiet morning and I will receive him properly at dinner.