Souping in Peterstown came to an end, and Una had enough to do with her full school and ignorant scholars to deaden the sting of her grief for the time.

Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.

The opposing view sees it as an abject failure and historically irrelevant. This verdict was neatly summed up by the New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin when he predicted, a year on from the event: “It will be an asterisk in the history books, if it gets a mention at all.”

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