Interviewer, JOHN CONNELL
2: Coming Out
Her days in the schoolroom over. LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER (BARONESS ASQUITH) recalls her * pure joy ' at coming out into the social world of the time; her intense pleasure at going to live at No. 10 Downing Street ' in which I spent eight of the most glorious years of my life '; and. later, of the anxious days before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war. when Downing Street was ' thronged with silent, watching, waiting crowds.'
