Although she had, on 12 March, said that the little duck with the hat on was ready to come out, she herself did not ‘come out’ into the world for another ten months, as I have said—not until 8 January 1959. In the meantime she seemed to me, when I looked back at the drawings, to be spending this summer trying to prepare a concept of a baseline for ‘being in the world’.

Thus, on 21 March she does her first landscape (Fig. 119). In the sky above the line of the hills are rather beautiful egg-like