8/18 But, if I am the meeting, don't propose as a resolution that this meeting is _tete montee_. John, you used to say of me before I married that I was troubled with intuitions." "I remember that I did." "You meant that I sometimes saw consequences very clearly, and felt that the only way to be at peace was to do the right thing, having taken some real trouble to find out what it was." "I was not aware that I meant that. But proceed." "When Laura was here in the autumn she often talked to Liz about little Peter Melcombe's health, and said she believed that his illness at Venice had very much shaken his constitution. His mother, she said, never would allow that there had been much the matter with him, though she had felt frightened at the time. It was the heat, Laura thought, that had been too much for him. |