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at the office all August. It is very nice getting the
fruit & vegetables out of the garden & the children
can bathe in Threipmuir & at Glenpark in
the Water of Leith. It is very nice having
Isabella home. She is to be head of her
house for two terms at St Andrews &
then be finished off somewhere, before,
I hope, studying at Edin^h University with a
view to agriculture. She is, alas, not a
dab at exams but we hope she has
passed her Oxford & Cambridge Certificate.
We'll hear in September.

Alec Maitland looks much better
not exactly the old Alec - different
but quite robust-looking. But I
never see him for more than a
second at a time in the club. He
seems like Noel Skelton in the
later phase, always passing
on to someone else. Johnnie