I answered on a single sheet:

_'All very well, but what about Mrs. P.? Does she concur?'_ (I told you

I was a married man.)

His answer was equally brief:

_'She doesn't know, but she would.'_

Well, it wasn't my business, so we 'wangled' it (I was adjutant then),

and Harry came out to France. But I was sorry for Mrs. Penrose.

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