. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. orrecting,but that I have finished the actual book—for atleast the second time. Still I am glad to have doneso much. It seemed interminable. {To her Mother.) 24, 1906. This is just one line to tell you I got backat lunch time and found all well here—Nettie andMargaret cheerful; Beth wonderfully busy, so thatshe has no time for reading ; Roddy screaming withpleasure ; the cat under the pipes, and pigeons andbantams in ranks at the door. I am going to have my class on Tuesday and areading of plays sometime in the week I hope—andlook forward to it
. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. orrecting,but that I have finished the actual book—for atleast the second time. Still I am glad to have doneso much. It seemed interminable. {To her Mother.) 24, 1906. This is just one line to tell you I got backat lunch time and found all well here—Nettie andMargaret cheerful; Beth wonderfully busy, so thatshe has no time for reading ; Roddy screaming withpleasure ; the cat under the pipes, and pigeons andbantams in ranks at the door. I am going to have my class on Tuesday and areading of plays sometime in the week I hope—andlook forward to it all very much. N. B.—Would you make a flighty and overdressedgirl act the part of the smart and cheeky London girlwith a flaming hat, who gets thoroughly scored off ?She would do it very well I think—or would youconsider the moral effect adverse, or wholesome, orindifferent ? {To Miss Beatrice Layman.) Tremans. (1906.) I was so very sorry to get your telegram thismorning ; I gathered it must have been very serious 376 •. Photo by H. Walter Barnctt, Knighlsbndgc, ] Miss Gourlay. Maggie. 1906. \To face page 376. THE SHADOW from it, before I got your letter ; but from what yousay I suppose there is still great danger. Such timesare very difficult, and would be more, perhaps, exceptthat one does not seem to fully realise things at thetime—but I know your strong desire isnt for mereprolongation of life, but if it may be, for the best andfullest kind of life up to the end. That is what onefeels so strongly about Beth—its quite unlike whatone feels about a younger person who may possiblyre-construct life again—and sometimes theres akind of peace too in great anxiety, in spite of thetension of feeling. And I think one must remembertoo that that is sometimes so with the person whois ill, even if it does not seem so on the outside—things take a new proportion, time seems to move ina different way. I shall be glad to know how thingsgo if you can find time to writ
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