Of which I let him figure as the joint head
I must (between ourselves) confess that I
Am gravely disappointed.
Without his help I did the Balkan stunt,
But when I left him to his own devices
To operate upon a local front
He failed me at the crisis.
I could not run the show in every scene,
Not all at once; and Caucasus was chilly—
Fifty degrees of frost, which would have been