title: Signs of Spring
author: Elizabeth Johnson
description: The late Elizabeth Johnson, known as Liz, has written many short stories while in literary school. This is her first book in print. Missy Stephens, is a song writer, lyricist and author of romance series titled, A Second Chance. She lives in PA with her family.
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  Indiscreetby Mary Balogh
  
  
  One
  
  
  ONE SURE SIGN of the coming of spring was the return of the Honorable Mr.
  Claude Adams and his wife to Bodley House, their country home in Derbyshire.
  
  
  There were other signs, of course. There were snowdrops and primroses and even
  a few crocuses in the woods and along the hedgerows beside the road, and there
  were a few shoots of green in otherwise bare gardens. There was a suggestion
  of green about the branches of trees, though one had to look closely to
  observe the delicate buds. The air was warmer than it had been and the sun
  seemed a little brighter. The roads and laneways had dried after the last
  heavy cover of snow.
  
  
  Yes, spring was coming. But the surest sign of all, and the one most welcome
  to many of the inhabitants of the smallvillageofBodley-on-the-Water, was that
  the family was returning to the house