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''to Bembridge, to Sandown, to Shanklin and back. Having already familiarized himself with Cowes and Ryde, he declared that he had now seen every city in the Isle of Wight except Freshwater.''

I lay low about Yarmouth, but yesterday I walked him back from Bonchurch, after my doctor had motored us "thither."

We did a lot of talking in between, but he did not sap my vitality He left after tea for France, via Southhampton and Havre; and I was able to sit up, take nourishment and even stand and watch a ball-room full of people dance Lent out on what the festive programme called "Easter Saturday": Christians, you may or may not be aware, call it Holy Saturday

And on 31. 3. 21:

'' I booked a seat on a four-in-hand this morning to go to certain point-to-point races; cancelled it; received an invitation from my young doctor to take me there in his car; declined it, feeling too weak and sulphurous I have a leg, like Sir Willoughby what's-his-name; but this leg is covered with patterns (Sir Willoughby Patterne, was it?) and to cure it I am covered and lined with brimstone. It is not curing; and I am just tempersome, that's all''

In answer to my question what he would