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saddled himself upon you in the circumstances -
not to talk of the contretemps of the
train missing.

It was more than good of you
(but very like you!) to write to me about
him. He has many good qualities I know;
but the war has given a cast of sadness
to his outlook on life which sometimes worries
me a little. I fancy there will be no better
cure than responsibility in a hum-drum
little sphere of his own, with a regular routine,
& results traceable to his own efforts. I
sympathise with him about the metaphysics
of the city: sometimes the whole thing appears
to me to be a preposterous illusion & the contradictious
explanations of the economists mere empty
logomachy; but then I see Bob Brand
& others growing fat & comfortable, so I