"I hope to visit your country before long; but I shall not be occupied with hats.

Again I congratulate you.

You were a bit careless, but your position justified that.

As head of the department at Scotland Yard given over to the hunt for spies, precaution doubtless struck you as unnecessary.

How unlucky for poor Fraser-Freer that it was to you he went to arrange for your own arrest! I got that information from a clerk at the Cecil.