Time at the Top
by Edward Ormondroyd
When motherless young Susan Shaw stumbles into a seventh floor porthole to the 19th
century where she meets two fatherless children, the story from seems predictable, but
Ormondroyd (and I) still had fun with it. Of course, at the end we all assume that
Susan’s success at dragging her father back to 1881 will have a happy ending at the
alter—but wait! There’s a sequel.
It had come to her that part of the seventh floor must have been converted in o a very
realistic stage set, and that the woman and the girl had been rehearsing their parts in a
play. But no, that couldn’t be it. No stage set that she had ever seen was so realistic
thatyoucould hear cows and smell flowers and feel the warmth of the sunlight.
Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd (Parnassus
Press, June 1963).