Pilgrim’s Inn (The Herb of Grace): Week 4

Christmas at the Herb of Grace

A US edition of Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge in my frosty garden.

{Hitherto the Herb of Grace had been to them a summer home; they had known it only permeated with sun and light, flower-scented, windows and doors wide open. But now doors were shut, curtains drawn to hide the sad gray dusk. Instead of the lap of the water against the river wall they …