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I recall one night when we were dining at Sir John Jellicoe's, he told me that the Admiralty never slept--that he had a telephone by his bed every night.
"Did it ever ring ?" I asked.
"No; but it will." You begin to see pretty clearly how English history has been made and makes itself.

This afternoon Lady S---- told your mother of her three sons, one on a warship in the North Sea, another with the army in France, and a third in training to go.

"How brave you all are!" said your mother, and her answer was: "They belong to their country; we can't do anything else." One of the daughters-in-law of the late Lord Salisbury came to see me to find out if I could make an inquiry about her son who was reported "missing" after the battle of Mons.