Margaret is very taken with her Beatrix Potter books, because they are Exactly The Right Size for being carried around as if she were important.*
She doesn’t take kindly to being interrupted when she’s hard at work on a paper on The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, which is, as she will tell you, about an owl. It’s an interpretation that goes somewhat against the grain of current scholarship, but she came to the conclusion after long study, and not just because she can say owl and not squirrel.
And now we’re going to let her go back to work, because she is very busy.
*Which she is, of course.
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