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Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 1851-1920

"Elizabeth's Campaign"

I can't
bear the muddle and waste of this place. It gets on my nerves.
Perhaps, if I stay, I may get a chance. I have made a small
beginning--with the food. But I won't bother you with it.
'Above all, I must try and make friends with the twins.
Desmond would be easy, but he's going. Pamela will be more
difficult. However, I shall do my best. As I have already said,
if she would only set up a flirtation--a nice one--that I could
aid and abet!
'What will the married sisters be like? Desmond and Pamela say
very little. All I know is that Alice--that's Mrs.
Gaddesden--is to have a fire in her room all day, though the
weather now is like July. To judge from her photographs, she is
fair, rather pretty, stout and lethargic. Whereas Margaret is
as thin almost as her father, and head-over-ears in war
charities. She lives, says Pamela, on arrowroot and oatcake, to
set an example, and her servants leave her regularly every
month.


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