As soon as a natural time of relief shall come, I'll go and be happier in my going than you or anybody else can guess.
Now we go to get my digestion stiffened up for another long tug--unless the Germans proceed forthwith to knock us out--which they cannot do.
With my love to everybody on the Hill, Affectionately yours, W.H.P.
Mr.and Mrs.Waldorf Astor--since become Viscount and Viscountess Astor--had offered the Pages the use of their beautiful seaside house at Sandwich, Kent, and it was the proposed vacation here to which Page refers in this letter.

He obtained a six weeks' leave of absence and almost the last letters which Page wrote from England are dated from this place.

These letters have all the qualities of Page at his best: but the handwriting is a sad reminder of the change that was progressively taking place in his physical condition.

It is still a clear and beautiful script, but there are signs of a less steady hand than the one that had written the vigorous papers of the preceding four years.
_Memorandum_ Sandwich, Kent, Sunday, 19 May, 1918.
We're at Rest Harrow and it's a fine, sunny early spring Carolina day.
The big German drive has evidently begun its second phase.

We hear the guns distinctly.