And the future of the world more than ever in our hands! We here don't know what you think or what you know at home; we haven't yet any time to read United States newspapers, which come very, very late; nobody writes us real letters (or the censor gets 'em, perhaps!); and so the war, the war, the war is the one thing that holds our minds.
We have taken a house for the Chancery[79]--almost the size of my house in Grosvenor Square--for the same sum as rent that the landlord proposed hereafter to charge us for the old hole where we've been for twenty-nine years.

For the first time Uncle Sam has a decent place in London.

We've five times as much room and ten times as much work.

Now--just this last week or two--I get off Sundays: that's doing well.

And I don't now often go back at night.
So, you see, we've much to be thankful for .-- Shall we insure against Zeppelins?
That's what everybody's asking.