The Great Lady, who was our hostess, told me, with tears in her voice, that she had suspended all social relations with the Liberal leaders.
At lunch--just five or six hours before--we were at the Prime Minister's, where the talk was precisely on the other side.
Gladstone's granddaughter was there and several members of the Cabinet.
Somehow it reminds me of the tense days of the slavery controversy just before the Civil War.
Yet in the everyday life of the people, you hear nothing about it.
It is impossible to believe that the ordinary man cares a fig! Good-night.

You don't care a fig for this.

But I'll get time to write you something interesting in a little while.
Yours, W.H.P.
_To Herbert S.Houston_ American Embassy London Sunday, 24 Aug., 1913.
DEAR H.S.H.:.

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