Secret Passage

[albert_campion]

An anecdote told to me by grandmother on a rainy Saturday afternoon over tea and sandwiches:

"You must have been about five," grandmother Emily said, "when you began to discover the secret parallel world of the great house. Of course, you did this so gradually and methodically that nobody realized at first what a spell it must have held over

Comments

[zandra_x]

Ah, she calls him 'puffin'.

[bimo]

My idea, not Allinghams ;-)

I figured that grandma would never call him by his pseudonym, but didn't want to use his real name too often. And 'puffin' just struck me as being the right kind of affectionate term ...

Maybe an aftereffect of viewing too many TV scenes in which Peter Davison is wearing a tux ;-)

[zandra_x]

I think 'puffin' was the perfect grandmotherly endearment.