“Once,” she continued, “I wanted to go to a chapel in that Catholic
town, and my mother said I should go if I would be sure not to laugh at
anything; and I promised I would not; so, I took care to keep my eyes
half shut, half open, thus, for fear I should see something to make me
laugh, for my mother told me I should not come out all day if I laughed.
But there was nothing ridiculous.”
[The memorandum of the above conversation breaks off
abruptly.]