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 : To-day  from her. Go on, Frank.

It’s a big girls’ school, which has been taken over by the Red Cross. I found it quite easily, but they wouldn’t let me see Chris just then. I had an hour to wait, so I went and sat about in the grounds. Some of the wounded soldiers who were around were rather rude because I was not in khaki. I did my best to explain that I was a priest of God, and that the feeling of the bishops was so strongly against the enlistment of the clergy, but





He was in a very nice room with three other officers quite decent fellows  and he seemed glad to see me—more cordial towards me, I may say, than he had been for some years. He seemed better than I had expected, but somehow not quite himself curiously boisterous, I thought. He talked a little about Harrow Weald and this place, and then, suddenly, after a pause, he made the most extraordinary statement, which, coming as it