| Description | Asks if E can join him for a cup of tea aboout 5, he enjoys seeing his friends at that time if E is in London on 23rd. He says he would like to see all of his friends parading around the square, if he wanted one he would call from the window, if not he would tell them all to go. Says Mrs Braving(?) will never be in his imagined caterpillar, he had a skirmish on his doorstep with her in Wilsford - she wanted to picnic in Stephen's garden calling at 1.30. Mrs Hardy wrote to Stephen and said she enjoyed sitting with him and Mr Druce and it was the happiest time since T.H.'s death. Siegfried says he met Alec D'Urbivelle and wished E was there as he could not remember his present name - he looked good 6ft 4 - dark - moustached - smartly dressed for London about age 50 years. His wife was quite different - sat on the seat with a rug reading a magazine, looked bored and billied but still had some youth and looks - perhaps she had a bad accident and was in pain? Siegfried feels E should write a short story about this - he thinks he owns the station! |