The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 14th, 1924.

I left Park Lane in time to catch the 10 a.m. at King's X. At Darlington I was met by Clayton with the car, but no William. The absence of his pleasant, friendly face was a shock. I beguiled the journey by reading a novel by Stephen McKenna, "The Commandment of Moses", a sufficiently disconcerting picture of post–war society. It is frankly contemptuous of marriage.

I paid a large number of bills, & wrote many letters. Sykes came to see me about that woeful J.: but he had nothing of substance to urge against the severe course, which appears only the more inevitable, the more it is postponed.

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