The garden party and other stories

On a gorgeously sunny summer's morning, the Sheridan household prepares for an afternoon garden party: a marquee is pitched, exquisite sandwiches are created, and an abundance of canna lilies waits to be arranged. Young Laura flits pleasurably from task to task, all the while revelling in the sensory delights of nature and life. But her idyll is suddenly shattered by the baker's man, delivering both pastries and news - news that a man has just been killed in the nearby lane ...