Ardith Hinton

>            Some folks consider it acceptable to introduce a tense
> change at the beginning of a new paragraph, but AFAIC it's
> distracting & unpleasant.  I would suggest you pick one or the
> other & avoid changing horses in midstream....  :-Q

This very morning I have enountered that device in Peter Taylor for
the second time, but it is the first time that I have found the time
(time, time, time...) to quote it:

> They were on their wa downstairs again now, and by the time they
> had finished with this favorite subject the would be downstairs.
> They would be in the dark, flower-bedecked downstairs hall and
> just before entering the dining room for the promised
> refreshments: the fruit jello, the English tea biscuits, the lime
> punch.
>
> And now foor a moment Mr. Dorset bars the way to the dining room
> and prevents is sister from opening the closed door. "Now, my
> good friends," he says, "let us eat, drink, and be merry!"
>   "For the night is yet young," says his sister.
>   "Tonight you must be gayt are carefree," Mr. Dorset enjoins.
>   "Because in this house we are all frieds," Miss Dorset says.
> "We are all young, we all love one another."
>   "And love cab make ys all yound forever," her brother says.
>   "Remember!"
>   "Remember this evening always, sweet young people!"
>   "Remember!"
>   "Remember what our life is like here!"
>   And now Miss Dorset, with one hand on the knob of the great
> door which she is about to throw open, leans a little towards the
> guests and whispers hoarsely: "This is what it is like to be
> young forever!"

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