hope."

"So do I," said Margery. With the pencil in one hand and the various
scraps of paper in the other, she climbed on to the writing-desk and
gave herself up to literature....

And it seems to me that she is well equipped for the task. For
besides having my pencil still (of which I say nothing for the
moment) she has now three separate themes upon which to ring the
changes--a range wide enough for any writer. These are, "Baby got
solicitor" (supposing that there is such a word), "Solicitor got
baby," and "Got baby solicitor." Indeed, there are really four
themes here, for the last one can have two interpretations. It might
mean that you had obtained an ordinary solicitor for Baby, or it
might mean that you had got a specially small one for yourself. It
lacks, therefore, the lucidity of the best authors, but in a woman
writer this may be forgiven.






III.--MY SECRETARY





When, five years ago, I used to write long letters to Margery, for