Lucinda Riley. Sister of the shadow (№ 405695)

We live here in warmth and comfort, and it is so easy for us to abstract from all the terrible and terrible things that are happening outside of our little world. But when I am in London, when I see dozens of crippled disabled soldiers being asked to be alms on the streets, I understand that any war entails the impoverishment of people. This is, so to speak, her inevitable epilogue.