Margaret Lee Runbeck Quote

A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a little white fence around her business, with a swinging, helpless gate through which grown-ups come in or go out, for there are no locks on your privacy.


Our Miss Boo (1942)


A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a...

A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a...

A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a...

A child's business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is no house, not even a glass house. A child's reticence is a...