26 MAY 1917, Page 9

May 1, '15.

Thank you very much for your very kind letter. I am probably now on my last week-end before going to the front, and I am much afraid that in any case the claims of one's immediate family at such a time are too insistent to be ignored; so that I can't hope to avail myself of your very kind invitation to stay, until these times are past. Then, when I shall be thinking, if I survive, of what ought to be my next move, I should be extraordinarily glad of the chance to talk things over with an older man such as yourself who have shown me so much kindness and sympathy and under- standing-