This issue of their grandmother not saying goodbye somehow re-awakens memories for me of being a horrifically home-sick ten-year-old sent to boarding school for the first time, and being terrified that my mother would leave without saying goodbye. I think I overheard someone saying that she should just slip away when I was busy and it turned into a real issue for me. But I can understand that from my mother's point of view, it must have been pretty awful to have to leave me in foreign country for the best part of a year... and my tears must have been hard to deal with.
So I can really feel for both Rose and her Grandmother.
(my favourite moment in these chapters has to be Peter cutting up Fob's 'sailors' with their honey buttons.)
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Re: The infant Dodds' understanding of the events in their life
Date: 2014-12-01 04:29 pm (UTC)So I can really feel for both Rose and her Grandmother.
(my favourite moment in these chapters has to be Peter cutting up Fob's 'sailors' with their honey buttons.)