Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

Why not? I think at that point she did not (want to) fully realize her husband was going to die. The party didn't rush out of the theater, like e.g. in case of a fire, they didn't even know where to go at the time they left the box. So in my humble opinion it was possible she took time to take her bonnet. It would probably also have depended on where it was stored in case she took it off?! On her lap? (That's what I'd probably do if there was no wardrobe.) And obviously she even didn't want to leave Peterson House with appropriate headwear it the moment of greatest despair, if it's true she resorted to Huldah Francis' one as hers had disappeared.