Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

... leader with no guts to take on his own party – the ultimate mark of Cain in the Blairite world view.

There was a heavy table in one corner of the dungeonesque place, on which were a number of books and papers.

In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.