Is he really the best we can do? He seemed quite pathetic and humiliating.

However there is always the hope that the war has done wonders in the development of some characters at home as it has done at the front.

I can't spare time to write more now as it is Sunday + I must write to Nell. Fowkes has me in his debt for another fine letter. It is a pleasure to hear that those of the old 88h who return home will not have to meet [illegible].

By the way it is a thousand pities that Victoria has not