Chapter 24: George's Letters

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​⁠Robert Audley did not return to Southampton, but took a ticket for the first up town train that left Wareham, and reached Waterloo Bridge an hour or two after dark. The snow, which had been hard and crisp in Dorsetshire, was a black and greasy slush in the Waterloo Road, thawed by the flaring lamps of the gin-palaces and the glaring gas in the butchers' shops.

Robert Audley shrugged his shoulders a