Winston Graham. Eclipse (№ 383011)

Ross pressed her cheek to hairy cheek of the old woman. It seemed as though it refers to something long past - time that is dead to all but her. Overall good-hearted person, but rarely exhibiting sentimentality, he felt a surge of feelings, kissing that smelly old woman, because she was the only person remaining from his lost childhood. Parents died long ago, and her aunt and uncle, Francis died, Verity he so rarely sees. This is the only person who remembers with him the time when all was unshakable, the time of careless youth, prosperity, rigid traditions and rules of family inheritance is the only connection to this house and the fact that once constituted for him the whole world.