(I am given to
understand from other sources that the person of whom I made mention
above is a highly-trained Greek scholar and of exceptional refinement
and cultivation, so that may be the reason.) The strain of preparing
M. E. for these talks and then my anxiety when, at meals or after
them, I hear her upon the brink of some fatal mistake, has caused me
to have most unpleasant headaches, and really, if it were not so
modern and silly a phrase, I should say the thing was getting on my
nerves. However, all the interesting guests are leaving on Tuesday
afternoon. Mr. Derringham, I understand from what he said to me,
intends to go over to his old master, Professor Carlyon's, and catch
a later train from there, but M. E. does not know this, and I have
not felt it my duty to inform her of it, because it might involve
some awkwardness connected with the person about whom I have already
given you a hint. I must close now, as I have some facts to look up
concerning the worship of Dionysus which M. E. is going to bring in
to-night.
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