**As to our sailing," she wrote from London, "every-
thing depends on Ena. My cablegrams will have told
you that she's better, but not exactly haw. She's better
mentally, and very sweet. I think it surprising. Now
that the first shock is past, she's calmer, too, and doesn't
say so often that she expected it. Why she should have
expected it I couldn't make out till last night, when Archie
told me that there'd been something between Claude and
a girl named Fay. I remember those Fays; queer people
they always were, and rather uppish. She was a big,
handsome girl when I was a little one. Eliza Grimes was
her name, and as long ago as that she couldn't keep her
place. I remember how she came for a while to Aunt
Rachel's school, though not for long. Aunt Rachel
couldn't draw too exclusive a line at first, but she did
drop her in the end. I should never have thought that
Claude would take up with a girl like that — Claude, of all
people. You can't run counter to dass distinctions with-
out making trouble, I always say — and you see how it
acts. You and Thor are far too republican, or too
democratic, or whatever it is, but I never thought that of
poor Claude.
"Not that Archie attributes this dreadful thing to the
connection with the Fa3rs. He won't hear of any such
suggestion. Ena seemed to look on it at first as a retribu-
tion, but Archie insists that there never was an3rthing to
retribute. There may be two opinions about that, though,
mind you, I'm not saying so. To the best of my ability
I'm letting bygones be bygones, as I think I've shown.
