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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 10

MORALS OF MARGOT: FRANK MRS ASQUITH. LONDON, July 25. Sirs Asquith continues her memoirs in the Sun dr v Times in the intimate strain for which the first chapter was notable. She relates that her sister Laura was disturbed on hearing that they were considered fast, and that people were shocked at the stories of their mooting men in their bedroom at midnight. ” Laura advised that they should give up the practice on v/hich the story was based, but Margot (Mrs Asquith) realised that this would bo absurd. “The bedroom,” she writes,_ “had been converted from a nursery into a sitting-room, and it was ridiculous that boys could not bring their friends and finish their cigars with us. That these revels should shock anyone seemed fantastic to mo, and, as most of those in the house agreed, we continued.” The writermlescribes her meeting with Frank Lyttelton, who proposed two days later, and was accepted by Laura ten days later. Mrs Asquith grows enthusiastic over Mrs Langtry and other professional beauties of the period, and compares society then and now. “It is no better and no worse than it was in the eighties,” she says. “There is less talent and intellectual ambition, and much less religion, but where all the beauty has gone 1 can’t think.” Mrs' Asquith concludes the instalment with a defence of the much-dis-cussed “German governess,” ridiculing the idea that she was a spy. The stories that she (Mrs Asquith) frequented German prisoners’ camps are described as “silly lies, disseminated with that kind of venom which belongs in equal proportions to cowards and credulous cranks.”

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