She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy still playing with his tin trumpet.


The Thinking Reed (1936)

Rebecca West Quotes

She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy...

She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy...

She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy...

She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy...