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Quotation from Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
“It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof and making her bed tremble.”
Bliss and Other Stories, The Wind Blows (Project Gutenberg text)
Matilda wakes in fright on a gusty autumn morning; the wind sets the restless mood of the whole story.
Citation: "It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof and making her bed tremble." — Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories, The Wind Blows (Project Gutenberg text). (id bliss-and-other-stories-q6)
Portrait: Mansfield 1917 cropped, Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Public domain.
