Letter: Small reactions

Sir: Winifred Meade spoke of perspective in her lively description of imparting the facts of life (29 October). One of my daughters, aged six, already well-informed by us, returned from school full of the story of the Virgin Mary.

'Well,' she said, astonished. 'He just magicked it in]'

Yours etc,

JOAN LAMBERT

London, SW14

29 October