'Although Bertha Young was thirty, she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at nothing, at nothing, simply' This second collection of Katherine Mansfield's stories first appeared in 1920, three years before her death though her total output was small, her observations of human behaviour and evocations of place are unsurpassed