[Knygathin]

Quote Originally Posted by Druidic

What about yourself? Do you have an interpretation or a favorite reading?

Yes, I do! But it's not a very intellectual interpretation, more an intuitive impression.

To me, the tale seems very clear. The children are separated from their parents, and must live with their grandmother. If you live surrounded by old things and hear tellings of the distant past, rather than grow in an immediate modern presence of materiality, you will get stringed to that past. That's what happens to the children. Furthermore, inside the old chest, there is the soft touch of pretty rose silk, and the lingering sweet smell of flowers that were alive perhaps a hundred years ago, . . . a very strong line directly into the past.

The story as whole, gives a subtle feeling of de la Mare having transcended the illusion of material linear time dimension, having lifted the veil to reveal that everything is one and existing.