Yes. You do, indeed, seem to have 'underestimated her reaction'. She's a sensitive one, and it's worse now that she's in that inbetween, adolescent stage where everything becomes ever so much more intense--more wonderful, more tragic, more romantic, more dire, more irritating, more shaming, more enviable--more unbearable for everyone concerned. They're all like that, but Miss Parkinson is just fragile enough that all that emotion can tip her into crisis in heartbeat.
Still. I think she'll survive, and I believe she'll be very glad to have those books. Yes, I know what you sent, and she-
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Date: 2012-02-04 01:25 am (UTC)Yes. You do, indeed, seem to have 'underestimated her reaction'. She's a sensitive one, and it's worse now that she's in that inbetween, adolescent stage where everything becomes ever so much more intense--more wonderful, more tragic, more romantic, more dire, more irritating, more shaming, more enviable--more unbearable for everyone concerned. They're all like that, but Miss Parkinson is just fragile enough that all that emotion can tip her into crisis in heartbeat.
Still. I think she'll survive, and I believe she'll be very glad to have those books. Yes, I know what you sent, and she-
Oh, dash it. I've got to run.