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In 1908 I remember staying with the Robsons, a wealthy family in Stockton. I arrived at noon to hear that Sidney, the second son, had been locked in his bedroom with bread and water because he had tortured a cat. Meanwhile, Marjorie, Sidney's sister, was left alone with me. She suggested that we should change clothes. Not realising what this implied, I was starting to strip off, when her mother came in and marched me off to another room where she gave me a lecture on sex. Later that summer, when Sidney was again locked up for some misdemeanour, a game of hide and seek was organised and Marjorie disappeared. Some time later, she was found lying beside a haystack in the arms of a naked farmhand.