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Scotch - I shall never be able to bear it any more
than I could bear to read Burns"!) How can
you weave so much of it out of yourself,
you, whose feet are set in Paternoster Row
Westminster & Oxford. Montrose must take
you by the hand by night & in all intervals
& have you with him in his own century & his
one [sc. 'own'] countryside I suppose. But David Sempill
is your own self. Never did I feel an author
more inside one of his own characters - tho' I've seen
you behave so like Mark Kerr I'm not sure I
couldn't see you more readily inside his coat.
I'm here with Dorothy Palmer for a few days.
I brought Reggie out to Lausanne to have his blood
searchingly tested by Jeanneret a doctor who has
done a lot for Mabel Grey, the Bishop of Bombay, & Sybil
Graham! His theory is that one's blood is the mirror of
one's health & he takes lots of it at intervals & analyses it & tells one
the result, at the end of 5 days, after submitting it to various