I do not even know. . . . I am promised a perfectly good end; but so were any babies of old who ended in being eaten by the ogress.
We are never too old for adventures; but pray that I come safely out of this one.
On 30. 9. 21 he writes:
Very many thanks for The Secret Victory, with the delightful dedication and preface. I am not at all sure that I shall not read the book again.
I have just returned from an interview with the local income-tax brigand which filled me with some apprehensions. . . . After a . . . jest or two, I left the brigand's cave unscathed. . . .
I go to the Wharf to-morrow for a week and may stay on a day or two longer, if pressed: I always do, you know. . . .
I had been invited to deliver some lectures
in Sweden and Denmark. Teixeira was good
enough to read the manuscript of these, as of
almost everything I wrote. With his letter
of 3. 10. 21 he returned the first:
Here is your lecture . . . I really cannot suggest
any cuts. My one and only lecture read 2-3/4
minutes: this is no reason why yours should not
