Downstream

the Olympic Committee told
her there was already a
chaperone and that she would
have to go at her own
expense, she refused to let her
daughter go. Hilda was under
twenty-one and a minor: there
was nothing she could do but
bow to her parents’ wishes.
That year, however, she won
the Thames championship
again, before leaving the
world of amateur swimming
to join Cunard officially as