Mrs.Waldron whose son is Secretary to Milner and his secretary were more than polite to each of us.

Milner spent the whole evening we were there talking to Cecil and not to the lady we had had the row with, which was a pleasing triumph.

He sent me unsolicited a most flattering personal letter to the Governor of Natal, saying that I had come to him with my strong letters but that he had so enjoyed meeting me that he wished to pass me on on his own account.

Cecil asked me what it was I had talked so much to him about and I asked her if it were possible she couldn't guess that of course I would be telling him how to run the colony.

My advice was to bombard Cape Town and make martial law, for the Cape Towners are the most rotten, cowardly lot of rebels I ever imagined as being possible.