To get away from London when the weather promises to be good, and to get away from people seemed a joyous prospect.

I can, at any time I must, come to London in two hours.
The job's too important to give up at this juncture.

This, then, is the way we can keep it going.

I've no such hard task now as I had during the years of our neutrality, which, praise God! I somehow survived, though I am now suffering more or less from the physical effects of that strain.

Yet, since I have had the good fortune to win the confidence of this Government and these people, I feel that I ought to keep on now until some more or less natural time to change comes.
Alice keeps remarkably well--since her influenza late in the winter; but a rest away from London is really needed as much by her as by me.