I shall be _wary_ with Beryl--haven't committed myself--ourselves to any engagement beyond six months.

She's amazingly clever, but I should say quite heartless.

Two babies in three years, and both illegitimate--the real Mrs.Architect very much upset, no doubt, Mr.Architect getting wilder and wilder in his work through trying to maintain two establishments--they say he left out all the sanitation in Sir Peter Robinson's new house and let the builders rush up the walls without damp courses--and it's killing her father, the Dean.

It's not as though she hid herself away, but she goes out so much! They are talking of turning her out of her club because of the things she says before the waitresses..." _Vivie_: "What things ?" _Norie_: "Why, about its being very healthy to have babies when you're between the ages of twenty and thirty; and how with this twilight sleep business she doesn't mind how often; that it's fifty times more interesting than breeding dogs and cats or guinea-pigs; and she's surprised more single women don't take it up.

I think she must be detraquee....