Hubert and Rose - The Curse of the Tennis Club

Hubert and Rose considered the members of the tennis club to be a gay and fashionable set. On Saturday nights they could hear dance music from the large new addition to the clubhouse. He no longer wondered why she had closed the door against him like that, he only wished he had not seen it close. The window behind him was a big oblong, almost a square, a sash window, and it faced the end wall of their garden. At the other side of the wall lay the corpse of the Tennis Club. If Hubert had gone to stand by the window he would have seen the tops of the trees far away beyond the corpse and beyond the trees coming towards him, the sky