My mother who has resided mainly at Brussels for many years preferred that I should be educated in England.

I was placed at well-known boarding schools till I was old enough to enter Newnham.

I passed as a Third Wrangler at Cambridge and then joined the firm of Fraser and Warren.

As you seem so interested in my relations, I might inform you that I have not many.
My mother's sister, Mrs.Burstall, the widow of Canon Burstall, resides at Winchester; my grandfather, Lieutenant Warren, was killed in the Crimea--or more likely died of neglected wounds owing to the shamefully misconducted, man-conducted Army Medical Service of those days.

My mother in early days was better known as Miss Kate Vavasour.