When they had been forced to retreat she would see them laughing and winking at one another, and she wondered how it could matter so much to Great-Aunt Matilda that she was prepared to make what her father would have called ‘an exhibition of herself”.
However, Anita was clever enough to realise that her great-aunt was an eccentric and as such the town in its own way was rather proud of her.
As soon as her bath chair, which was a very comfortable one with a thickly padded seat, was in the correct position, Anita would be sent to the well.
There she obtained a glass of mineral water, which had special properties in it, especially iron, and which had brought invalids to Harrogate since 1571 when the waters were first discovered.
Anita had already found a book which described the chalybeat
