Although March was not in its teens, Pelham Crescent lay bathed in a flood of warm spring sunshine, and, within and without, the house in which lives the oldest of all English actresses-- probably the oldest living actress in the world-- was bright wi...
Although March was not in its teens, Pelham Crescent lay bathed in a flood of warm spring sunshine, and, within and without, the house in which lives the oldest of all English actresses-- probably the oldest living actress in the world-- was bright with flowers; golden crocuses bringing a breath of country air into this London crescent, and vivid scarlet anemones, freshly arrived that morning from the sunlit slopes of the Pyrenees.