dinners again. I wonder if I shall ever dine with you again at all. . . .
On 8. 6. 20 he writes:
. . . I send you a letter from . . . a Beaumont master and scholastic in minor orders. Apart from its nice misspelling, its noble, broad-*minded casuistry will explain to you why I love the Church, as it explains to me why you hate it. Cependant I suppose that I must set to work and read me a little Darwin.
I am making fair progress, as my recent letters must have proved to you. But I do not yet consider myself near enough to complete recovery to return to town. . . .
In June Teixeira was created a Chevalier
of the Order of Leopold II. My letter of
congratulation was annotated on this and
other subjects:
Referring to a criticism of Kipps, I had written:
It is excellent stuff, and I always regard Wells
as being one of the . . . greatest . . . comedy-writers.
But I always feel that in Kipps and all
the earlier books he is only working up to Mr.''
