"Dear Miss Asquith – Your letter reached me in my wanderings across country from Biarritz to Avignon... Your words touched me to the quick – only Mrs Asquith and yourself really know my feelings towards your Father, and that you and she should both have written and spoken to me as you have done, overwhelms me."

"We left Venice early this morning & have been rolling for 6 hours through the Tyrol.... Cys & I are installed by ourselves for a 14 hours journey 8 – 9.40. I have read a book on Venetian painters & one on Woman Suffrage from cover to cover.... I wonder if the most influential of the Carters will meet me at the station"