Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.

Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?

Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr. F's Aunt had a great deal of spirit.

Several years earlier, she had arranged to bring three pairs of the rapidly vanishing ‘ō‘ō bird from Hawai‘i island to Kaua‘i, hoping they would form a new colony.