Читать книгу Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901–1910 in Their Own Words - Max Arthur, Max Arthur - Страница 132

When I was three years old, I ran away. Mother came out and said, ‘Has anyone seen a little girl?’ Of course there was nobody about in those days. Although it was a town it was just like living in a village, because there was no traffic, there were no cars. All you saw were coal carts and horse traps. She looked round the street and someone told her a little girl was toddling into the schoolyard. And I'd toddled up and gone to Parliament Street and of course the headmistress kept me in. Mother came in and I was sitting on the floor with my head down. I wouldn't look up because I didn't want to go.