I wish I could prove it or even certainly predict it.

But it is at least conceivable.

Alas, no one can _prove_ anything about the war.

The conditions have no precedents.

The sum of human misery and suffering is simply incalculable, as is the loss of life; and the gradual and general brutalization goes on and on and on far past any preceding horrors.
With all my love to you and Mollie and the trio, W.H.P.
And so for five busy and devastating years Page did his work.