Next day he wrote:
T. B. [Thornton Butterworth] is taking “O. P.” [Old People] and coming down here to see me on Saturday.
Ever so many thanks for your generous offices in the matter....
On Peace Day, in a letter dated from Finsbury Circus, Teixeira writes:
Here sit I, putting in four or five hours before a train leaves to take me to Herbert George and Jane Wells at Easton Glebe and reading Quo Vadis. Already, in 99 pages, I have discovered 21 expressions which you would undoubtedly have condemned in The Tour.
... This is interesting: [the author] says that in Nero’s day it was already becoming a stunt among the Romans to call the gods by their Greek Names. Tiberius was not so much earlier—was he?—than Nero that the practice might not have begun even then. If so, we can let Couperus have his way and retain those few names. They are very few, I think. I can remember at the moment only Aphrodite and Zeus and possibly Eros. It may be that Juno is mentioned as Hera, but I doubt it.
There is a charming garden, with a most beautifully kept lawn. The flowers ... consist entirely of the only three that I dislike: fuchsias, begonias and red geraniums.
Still ...
I hope that you are spending the day as peacefully and that this will find you well and happy....