Posted by PeterH on June 04, 2006 at 09:09:35 from 86.130.138.74 user Peter_H.
Apologies for all these postings, but I just had to say this. Throughout Swallowdale so far I find that Susan is presented always as kind and generous and competent. I have just read a sentence which made me throw the book down in anger: (when the local lad who is laying the scent for the hound-trail runs through the camp) <‘Will you have some tea?’ asked Susan, who had quickly washed out her mug.> This is the spontaneous reaction of a kind and polite girl, and I cannot see the slightest trace of 'priggishness' anywhere in the book, and I feel angry that the accusation has been made on Tarboard. This is not opinion, this is fact. This is not me talking, it is Ransome. Read the book.