(No one else present.)
(The sitting began with a statement from Feda that she liked Lionel, and that Raymond had taken her down to his home. Then she reported that Raymond said:—)
"Mother darling, I am so happy, and so much more so because you are."
M. F. A. L.—Yes, we are; and as your father says, we can face Christmas now.
Raymond says he will be there.
M. F. A. L.—We will put a chair for him.
Yes, he will come and sit in it.
He wants to strike a bargain with you. He says, "If I come there, there must be no sadness. I don't want to be a ghost at the feast. There mustn't be one sigh. Please, darling, keep them in order, rally them up. Don't let them. If they do, I shall have the hump." (Feda, sotto voce.—'hump,' what he say.)
M. F. A. L.—We will all drink his health and happiness.
Yes, you can think I am wishing you health too.