When motherless young Susan Shaw stumbles into a seventh floor porthole to the 19th century
where she meets two fatherless children, the story from seems predictable, but Ormondroyd
(and I) still had fun with it. Of course, at the end we all assume that Susan’s success at
dragging her father back to 1881 will have a happy ending at the alter—but wait! There’s
a sequel.
It had come to her that part of the seventh floor must have been converted in o a very
realistic stage set, and that the woman and the girl had been rehearsing their parts in a
play. But no, that couldn’t be it. No stage set that she had ever seen was so realistic
thatyoucould hear cows and smell flowers and feel the warmth of the sunlight.
DEBUT
Time at the Top (Parnassus Press, June 1963).
VARIANTS
Debut. Time at the Top (Parnassus Press, June 1963).
It had come to her that part of the seventh floor must have been converted in o a very
realistic stage set, and that the woman and the girl had been rehearsing their parts in a
play. But no, that couldn’t be it. No stage set that she had ever seen was so realistic
thatyoucould hear cows and smell flowers and feel the warmth of the sunlight.
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