And then people ask me what I mean in [words torn out]. I hope you were among the six who understood or half understood my 'Poet's Vow' -- that is, if you read it at all. Uncle Hedley made a long pause at the first part. But I have been reading, too, Sheridan Knowles's play of the 'Wreckers.' It is full of passion and pathos, and made me shed a great many tears.