Human Relations and Other Difficulties by Mary-Kay Wilmers

Author:Mary-Kay Wilmers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2018-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Vita wrote on the train from Boulogne to Amiens. On 14 February Harold and Denys Trefusis flew to Amiens in a two-seater aero-plane and reclaimed their respective wives. (‘Quite like a sensational novel,’ Lady Sackville noted in her diary.) The relationship didn’t really end until some time in 1922. Wild oats are all very well, Vita wrote to Harold, but not ‘when they grow as high as a jungle’.

Nigel Nicolson was three the year his mother eloped. Vita didn’t take much interest in her children until they were grown up and then took too much. ‘They rush after me whenever they see me, simply because they have nothing else to do,’ she complained to Harold when the boys were home from prep school or Eton. And when he reminded her that responsibilities were not something ‘to regard with shame’, she asked him how he would like to have entire charge of two children for four months of the year:

Supposing that someone – say Eddy – told you that he had to look after two boys and that it was too much of a good thing, you would instantly agree. It would never cross your mind to say he was being unreasonable. Why then is it different for me? Sex, I suppose. Well, I don’t see that it makes any difference, so there.

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