Those who have ventured to return are delighted to be back in their own homes despite the bombings which disturb their slumbers. One wife stated that the actual experience of warlike expressions of goodwill were preferable to apprehensions aroused when far removed from the seat of for rumour and report the thick of it and particularly dangerously placed in his office. She was right, I think, for pondering upon dangers we wot not of can be mighty disturbing, The evils we know are preferable, In somewhat limited circles we now foregather and exchange experiences When the returned have ¢xhaustd their tales of woe as to the horrors of being out of their own homes, and in durance vile, we turn to current events and matters topical. Children and servants as topics are rather in abeyance these days. In our feminine way we advance tea-party logic on the great problems of our times and as such I pass some of it on to you.
In my circumgyration of the small life social as it is to-day our political situation eigners' attitude towards world affairs (and our little affair in particular have been presented which have dis turbed my domestic soul, We and our Governments have come in for a good deal of adverse criticism and I have wished many times that I had taken a more intelligent interest in politics—as some women do—and could give the right answers to irritating statements which have come my way. In expressing my views to you, Christabel, you will understand that I do so merely in the role of domestic-hearth stump-crat (my favourite one), and these opinions are none but Hester's
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