The various plantings had not suffered equally: the manicured privet borders with their deeper roots had fared the best, standing straight ...

 "Certainly makes decorating an embassy easier," I suggested with a smile as we moved into the White Drawing Room, the long oval a...

Tea was laid out on a table in the round bay windows flanked by elegant Louis XV chairs with watered silk upholstery. The china was English,...

Coldicott took my coat and hat and brolly into room off the foyer and then conducted me down the side corridor and knocked on a door halfway...

There wasn't much changed, or at least I didn't notice anything--but then I'd never spent a lot of time in Vere House, and Georg...

"Welcome, Lord Foxbridge, so nice to see you again," the man said, and I realized I knew him—it was Young Coldicott, our Coldicott...

An hour or so later, I rolled down Whitehall Garden to the back corner where a relatively unassuming gatehouse concealed the grandeur of Ver...