I'm rising thirty and I long for children and don't want 'em to come to me too late in life." _David_: "You said he didn't like _me_..." _Honoria_: "Oh that was half nonsense.

When we all met last Sunday at the Rossiters he became very jealous and suspicious.

Asked who was that whipper-snapper--I said you neither whipped nor snapped, especially if kindly treated.

He said then who was that Madonna young man--a phrase it appears he'd picked up from Lord Cromer, who used to apply it to every new arrival from the Foreign Office--Armstrong was once his military secretary.

I was surprised to hear he thought you womanish--I spoke of your fencing, riding,--was just going to add 'hockey,' and 'croquet': then remembered they might be thought feminine pastimes, so referred to your swimming.