24/47 I've had an hour's talk with her this afternoon.' 'Indeed ?' 'Met her down in the Leggatt fields. I find she doesn't write independently; just helps her father. What the help amounts to I can't say. There's something very attractive about her. She quoted a line or two of Tennyson; the first time I ever heard a woman speak blank verse with any kind of decency.' 'She was walking alone ?' 'Yes. |