Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play concerns Millicent Clare and Raymond Mounchensey, two childhood lovers. Because of a reversal in the fortunes of Mounchensey, Sir Arthur Clare, Millicent's father, forbids the wedding, and decides upon a match with Frank Jeringham, who is Raymond's close friend. In order to make Millicent forget her love for Mounchensey, she is sent to spend a year in a convent, after which her marriage with Jeringham is to take place...
...tale of the Idiot Boy, "Jonathan," who inadvertently slew his pet cricket. The tragedy was due to an indigestion brought on by eating dough. The end is charming: "Jonathan is 'a great hand,' his father tells me, at running a village store. But somehow I wish I could forget the dead and buried look that lurks in Jonathan's eyes." But, oh, the difference...