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which on second thoughts I should never
have done on the truthful but inadequate
ground that I never smoked till after
dinner, which didn't appear to annoy
him in the least, because he asked a
question or two & then started off about
something else.

Altogether I left him with a feeling
of devotion & got him to consent to be
our Honorary Member. Latterly some of
the photographs of the P. of W. in a golf circle
round a green in company with Tom, Dick
& Henrietta made me think there was
a bit of a keely (in the best sense of which
that word is capable) - unconventionality
carried down beyond what marks the caste
of Vere de Vere or even Coburg-Guelf -
about him. But then one assumed
it was done ad hoc & put away
when a return was made to palaces & peers.

Now the "on dit"s are that