I have made out a sort of military order to the Embassy staff, detailing one man with clerks for each night and forbidding the others to stay there till midnight.

None of us slept more than a few hours last week.

It was not the work that kept them after the first night or two, but the sheer excitement of this awful cataclysm.

All London has been awake for a week.

Soldiers are marching day and night; immense throngs block the streets about the government offices.