"Their conduct was condoned and even encouraged by the defendants who were sitting close by without ... "They were not alone on that railway line, they had not wandered from home unsupervised ...

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Like the roll of flame-coloured silk given to Olivia Curtis on her seventeenth birthday and soon after transformed into a dress for her first dance, Rosamond Lehmann's novel Invitation to the Waltz is ...