Lady Jellicoe’s criticism was quite favourable. “You have been extremely fortunate in catching my husband’s expression,” she said.
Mrs. Asquith did not make any comments, but her young son, who came with her, derived not a little amusement from his distinguished father’s presentment, and showed his appreciation by coming again and bringing a boy friend to see it the very next day.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Tussaud’s as educator—Queer questions—Wanted, a “model” wife—Quaint extract from an Indian’s diary.
An American visitor to the Exhibition once said to me, “You know, this show is a liberal education, a history of Europe in kind. I never learned so much history in any one afternoon. Why don’t you write your reminiscences?”
I told him that I probably should do so one day, and he replied characteristically:
“There is no time like the present. Get on with it, and put me down as a subscriber.”
A French Ambassador is reported to have said: “A day in Tussaud’s is worth a year at Oxford; it fixes history as no tutor could.”