MARGOT AND TENNYSON

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160811, 19 November 1920, Page 3

MARGOT AND TENNYSON

MIDNIGHT GHOST STORIES.

• LONDON, November 3. Mrs Asquith's book, which, has now been published, discloses additional lasts It describes how her sister told Margot (Mrs Asquith) that their action in receiving, men at midnight in their bedroom shocked people, “but we wore charming dressing jackets, sat up in bed, with coloured cushions behind oiir backs, with -the gas turned low and a brilliant hre. In tills setting we made up ghost stories. • It is related that even Dr Jowett, master of Balliol College, was once admitted to these midnight revels. Tennyson, at the first meeting he attended, pulled Margot on to his knee “as the most proper place tOitalk about the poem Maud.” Margot’s numerous amazing flirtations are described with remarkable zest. The anecdotes include qne in which an unhappy youth fled to Australia on his dismissal, and 1 returned ,in two years with grey hairs. The Times stresses the irony of these flirtations disclosures in view of the fact that the book is dedicated to Mrs Asquith’s husband. Deferring to her 'first meeting with Mr Asquith, when they sat on the terrace •■far into the night,” she says: “It never occurred to me that he was married, nor would that have affected me in any way.” An interesting admission is that Mrs Asquith smokes cigars.