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Whittingehame
Prestonkirk
Scotland

Telegrams: Prestonkirk.
Railway Station: East Linton, N.B.Ry.

to give a short resumé of what she had
missed - wh. A[un]t Nora did with admirable
brevity. I believe Alison was actually
guilty of looking on to the end before we
got there but that in Aunt Nora's eyes is
such a crime we hushed it up.

We are all thinking privately now how
frightfully dull our evenings are going
to be. To we elders I think perhaps the
chief charm of the book was the
revelation of Romance & Adventure
in the frame of the the middle aged the
respectable, the business like. I believe
I and the Aunts all felt that in
McCunn we ourselves had been understood
& revealed. To the young ones it was
of course rapture the way the real
initiative & authority & efficiency