In a moment of expansion during the Railway Strike, Mrs.Clements will say: "_That_ was poor Walter's first.

She died of acute dyspepsia, poor thing, on their marriage tour, and was buried at Venice.

Don't ever allude to it because he feels it so dreadfully." And my curiosity will have been rewarded for its long and patient restraint.

Clements' little finger on his left hand is mutilated.

I have never asked why--a lawn-mowing machine?
Or a bite from some passionate mistress in a buried past?
I note silently that he disapproves of palmistry-- But about Honoria Fraser, to whom I was introduced by Mr.George Bernard Shaw twenty years ago: She was born in 1872, as _Who's Who_ will tell you; also that she was the daughter and eldest child of a famous physician (Sir Meldrum Fraser) who wrought some marvellous cures in the 'sixties, 'seventies and 'eighties, chiefly by dieting and psycho-therapy.