Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering

Author:Molly Clavering
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: 2021-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIII

JUNE, 1952

Dear Sir, in answer to your kind enquiries—

(a)—Mrs. Kilmartin has been to lunch at Carmichael (a family party) and to tea at Ladymount. I took her there, and she enjoyed it, and really appreciated Mrs. Keith.

(b)—Madge appears to have dismissed her swain, who has gone to Inverness, and settled down again. She has taken up tatting in a big way, as a new outlet. I really mean tatting, and you have no idea, unless you saw it, what pretty and delicate edgings it makes for handkerchiefs and collars. I foresee that everything small enough in the Marchbanks’ cottage will be tatted to its last available inch.

(c)—I have not seen Major Whitburn for several weeks, which accounts for my not having mentioned him in recent letters. I think he has been away.

(d)—Atty is flourishing and playing cricket very seriously. He has developed into a slow left-hand bowler—or something equally cryptic and important. I am not well up in cricket, but will have to learn something about it before I go to Edinburgh to take him out. The duties of an aunt are many and varied, far more so than I had ever imagined. What with birds and cricket, the intricacies of Rugby football and the latest in jet planes, I am hard put to it not to disgrace myself, or worse still, Atty. I came out rather well over Latin, though. The modern young do not seem ever to have heard of those nonsense verses in Latin which delighted our simple childish minds. Do you remember the rolling periods of the one about “forty buses in a row”? I wrote it out for Atty, half-afraid that he might consider it beneath contempt, but no. He was just as pleased with it as I was in my day, and took it back to school “to get a rise out of some fellows who think they know everything,” as he observed darkly.

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