19th march 1940

Marion's birthday, there were 3 perfect rainbows, one in West and two in East. She got four books, Little Men and Little Women, Uncle Tom's Cabin, her Daddy made Marie Louise a pink bed. Just like her Mummy before her, she loves 'Little Women' and reads it over again almost daily. Her 11 year old criticism of it is that those writers wrote so much more naturally about real life, so different from present-day authors with their thrillers. She says she likes good books, not trash and her Mummy is gladof it.