close-of-play

Updated: May 3, 2025

Raffles let it pass; he had been talking of the close-of-play scores in the stop-press column, and I thought he was studying them rather silently. Or perhaps he was not studying them at all, but still thinking of Camilla Belsize, and the look from those brave bright eyes that she had never meant him to see.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Mr. Justice Raffles