When Linda was quite a tiny child, and, as her mother, who did not understand her, or attempt to do so, would say, “a very naughty child,” the only way in which to keep her quiet and prevent her from being naughty, was to allow her to sort out her grandmother’s “ribbon box.”Linda’s grandmother was an old-fashioned grandmother. She wore a cap of snowy lace on her grey hair, and black silk frocks that touched the ground all round, and a gold watch chain a yard and a half long which w...