Feb. II. Thurs.

Dear 

Thank you so much for your no e. I am off, D.V., on the
ferry to-night. Pup has been so good and is putting

me on the train. I am so glad she has not bothered you.

She is really happy with the nest or past of lions, chez Silvia,
in the basement flat, of all places, where Hazeltine
was. Well, they seem to haveaid all manne of ghosts,

his and mine, too. Such doings, "dinner at ten" she announced
to me, the greatest idea of a debauch. They all seem to have
friends on the stage, maids or supers, but as they average
IQ at the outside, its not so bad.

This is naturally PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL, though I
myself feel at long last entitled to my " story". Had a
bomb fr m R.A. from mid-ocean, on his return to Plymouth,
a French ship, he, God bless him, at nearly 45, was

"in love." He asked for his "freedom", whoch god kno us he
could have asked for long ago, but thelad he was with had
informed me that her husband would not divorce her. That was
hat time in Paris, do you remember ? You were so kijd and
understanding, and offered to help, I never forgot. "ell,
I dropped it all."

But R. had or has "fallen in love"
with the you g wife of the younger son of said Mrs. P.

(ts too, too Sea Gull. I am an old weathered gull and
sit on the shore and laugh- O, how I laugh. I can hardly
present myself visibly as I am apt to burst at the

most inopportune moments.

Well, R.A. returned to town, I ng nough to be staying
in an 'otel. He then was shov ed into a new car,
with his new girl and flew, a la simpson across the
continent. From Toulonf, just a few days ago, I got
the requisite" evidence", that is, he had last
co ghed up the original hotel bill. I believe it had
no e or less to be London. So I have been sticking here, so as to
be legally the " deseted wife." I have at last established
that, inlegal form, the devil of a job, as I should have
divorced him about 15 years ago, it seems. I did a Portia-
cum-Oxford) group, whihc they sa id made my casenot only
unique but "isolated" and the affair is presumed to have the
Discretion of the court" and the man at heinemanns who
has been very kind, as a sort of sponcer fo R.A. ( for
the Inner Temple, I think, though I was mad or drunk or
both- what a story) says he will see there is no
"noise". I am able to stope the case at any moment, I hve
reason to believe any of the P.8s are squeaking. heinemanns
say they have nothing to gain and much to loose by any"noise",
but all the same as SHZ is or was on the war-path and
it was stated might influence her Bo-ooy NO to divorce
the girl, its all come si comme ca. I want u to
a "in" on thi. That party at Douglas G. that was
tackled with, at L. and L., was apparently sheer bluff on
the part of Mrs. P. , as R.A. was already in America. He
went there to be "honourable" ( !! ) but the girl
cabled him to come back, hence my letter in mid-ocean, just before

he landed in England, long enough to be able to
hand me from Toulon the bill.

It is truly funny and get blue-beard and so on
OUT into the open. But I had to peel off shin in
the morning, then appear, all cold and discreet in the
afternoons, the most terrible ordeal- but how wonderful
the Temple is, and all it stands for, simply true art,
like a minuete, if one knows one step and minds it.

Thank you a thousand times, for
everything.