DEAREST ELSIE,
Please write down in your engagement book that you are dining with me on Thursday as well as on Monday. I have asked Godfrey Mellor to meet you on Thursday. George is laid up with appendicitis, and I am afraid he is very bad indeed. The doctors are going to decide to-day whether they are to operate immediately or not. He is at a nursing home in Welbeck Street. His sister is looking after him. He was going to Canada in August. I don't suppose he will be able to now.
I am looking forward to seeing you quite tremendously.
Yours,
G.
From the Diary of Godfrey Mellor
Monday, June 6th.
A. has got appendicitis and has been taken to a nursing home. I have just heard he is to have an operation to-morrow morning.
Tuesday, June 7th.
A.'s operation was successfully performed, but he is still very ill. Cunninghame has been to Welbeck Street this morning and saw his sister. She is most anxious. He was, of course, not allowed to see A.
Wednesday, June 8th.