. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. their guilt. I have two tiny recollections of her at this was when I went with her and my elder sisterto an evening childrens party. We were late, andwere shown into a room where a kindly governesswas dispensing tea ; but all the other guests hadfinished, and departed to games. We were giventea and cake, and then the awful solemnity andpoliteness of the whole thing dawned upon us ; Isaw my elder sister crimson suddenly, and thenbegin to laugh ; I joined in, to the consternationand discomfiture of the governess ; when we hadat last conquered our hys
. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. their guilt. I have two tiny recollections of her at this was when I went with her and my elder sisterto an evening childrens party. We were late, andwere shown into a room where a kindly governesswas dispensing tea ; but all the other guests hadfinished, and departed to games. We were giventea and cake, and then the awful solemnity andpoliteness of the whole thing dawned upon us ; Isaw my elder sister crimson suddenly, and thenbegin to laugh ; I joined in, to the consternationand discomfiture of the governess ; when we hadat last conquered our hysterics, which had beenaccompanied all the time, quite sincerely, by adeep sense of rudeness and shame, Maggie took herturn, and laughed longer and louder and morehelplessly than either of us. We got away somehow,and had a very earnest conversation on our returnabout our own discourtesy. If only I could have explained to Miss D , I remember Nelly saying, that I wasnt laughing at her ! Again I remember how Maggie and I walked over 22. Photo by R. Slingsby, Lincoln. ] ^ELLiE. Maggie. Aged 13. Aged II. 1876. At Lincoln. [To face page 22. LINCOLN to Riseholme, the Bishops palace, where there wasa big lake, on a summers day, to fish. We wereallowed to use the boat, and we floated about allday in the blazing sun, over the clear shallow lake,looking down into translucent spaces of sun-warmedwater, where big pike lay basking and asleep, andwide tracts of matted weed. We landed on theisland for our lunch, secured an abandoned and verymalodorous swans egg from a deserted nest, andfished at intervals in vain. About five oclock wegave it up, and were going off with our empty basket,when the old gardener came down to feed the ducks,and condoled with us on our ill-success. He threwa quantity of food into the shallow water by theedge of the bank, and the ducks churned it all intomud and foam. He then departed, when Maggiepointed out to me curious swirls and eddies in themuddy water, and said s
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