He was carrying a small handbag.

She took up her small handbag and her umbrella and opened the door with caution.

"Got any gold handbags?"

For a moment I see-sawed up and down the river bank, remembering I had left my handbag at the Queen's, but, infinitely more important, that my knapsack with money belt and diary were in the keeping of a peripatetic acquaintance somewhere along the crowded piers downstream.

When she had finished her repast she put aside the tray and, opening the shabby handbag, asked: "Do you take any interest in Egyptian history?

" "Simply this: At the last moment you will decide to take Leon with you. Give him no more time than he needs to pack a handbag.

She even laughed at herself for a fool as she recalled the tell-tale handbag on the porch and the damning presence of a Bazelhurst lantern in the hallway.

When I got down here, I helped the local police to go through everythingwe even searched the linings of his clothing and ripped his one handbag to pieces.

" She moved away quickly, dropping her handbag and having to stoop for it.