"You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her."
"It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time."
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Source: Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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