Dear all,

here are some comments on Chapter ten.


the Latin for next -- tunc
an Old English king attempting to turn back the tide -- Canute (Cnut)
the smallest pig in the litter -- a runt
the hounds pursuing the fox -- a hunt
the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow -- punts.

“There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.” -- Briony quotes a song which goes on with (according to one version):

"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird
etc"


sheath dress -- smth like those ones:

chinese burns -- as Urban Dictionary puts it, " chinese burn" is "a basic form of causing physical pain that is usually experienced for the first time in infant school. It invloves gripping the top of somebody's forearm with both hands then rotating the hands in opposite directions, thus stretching the skin."

Germoline -- antiseptic.