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of his own. I think, when you and Nan come, we can at any
rate make you comfortable.

Susie is sleeping the round of the clock. We are both
pretty tired, the voyage having been no kind of rest.
Our house physician is going to vet me to-night, and put me
on a regime so that I can put on some weight. But I am
looking very well, and am feeling enormously better. The
cooking is so superb, and this is such a hungry place, that
I must soon put on flesh. In my library I have all the
family photographs around me, and in our little private
breakfast-room I shall have prayers with Alastair and Susie.
The Prime Minister is coming to dine to-night, for I have
some confidential things to talk to him about. He goes off
to Washington to stay with the President tomorrow, on a very
important mission.

It is a tremendous thing to have started, for we
have really been hung up for seven months. I shall have
very little to do for the next week or two, then at the end
of the month I must pay my first official visits to Montreal
and Toronto, and receive degrees at both Universities, and
make several speeches. My life here is going to be very
leisured, compared to the one I led at home.
every/ I think I can manage to get three letters away to you