Then I've been to see Carmencita dance, which I enjoyed remarkably, and I have been reading Rudyard Kipling's short stories, and I think it is disgusting that a boy like that should write such stories.

He hasn't left himself anything to do when he gets old.

He reminds me of Bret Harte and not a bit of Stevenson, to whom some of them compare him.
I am very glad you liked the lady in mid-air story so much, but it wasn't a bit necessary to add the MORAL from a MOTHER.

I saw it coming up before I had read two lines; and a very good moral it is, too, with which I agree heartily.

But, of course, you know it is not a new idea to me.