Edith OEnone Somerville c. 1946

‘Sometimes it has been hard to believe in the return of the happy days we used to know. But we could not forget them, and remembrance had assurance in it, and asserted that they were only shadowed or hidden for a time. The stories of Horses and of Hounds, the Trials of Travel and Tea-parties, still had fun in them. Even writing of them during those past dark days had fun in it and kept hope alive…’