Struggle
He guessed that within her was a struggle between her Christian sympathy for the week-minded hunchback and her pride asa patrician.
Code
‘She’s a good woman really but she’s got a code to live by.’
Drew
Neil led the way, past the lady who drew back.
Composure
Neil’s dignity and composure, proper to a sea captain, crumbled into the abjectness of a peasant.
Supplication
His arms were loose and dangled in macabre gestures of supplication.
Remorseless
Calum was no longer one of the beaters; he too was a deer hunted by remorseless men.
Kennels
‘But if we were dogs she’d treat us better than she does. Aren’t the kennels at the big house bigger than our hut?’