desolately

Thirty years ago, the rosarian would have looked desolately to the heavens.

No, I thought desolately, but I could not say it.

I wrote back to the Chandler estate to ask whether its executors might consider my making Marlowe old, alone and desolately marooned in the year 1988.

Though the village is only a two-hour drive from Glasgow, a GPS sent me through 33 miles of the desolately beautiful Galloway Forest Park on a single-track road that rattled the nerves.

Five hours later, I was staring desolately at Mom’s face when her eyes popped open.