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have been a slight on James's memory. They were accordingly disposed, and with the proceeds she purchased various personal comforts ("things I am sure James would have liked me to have"), including a pianola.
This is all I have been able to learn about Jas Hook's private life. I seek to draw no moral, yet surely the proud though detestable position he attained affords one more proof that the Etonian is a national leader of men. Educationally, I gather from the Commonplace Book, his sympathies were with the classical rather than the modern side. In politics he was a Conservative. So far as I can discover, there never was any woman in his life, indeed it may be said with confidence that Jas Hook was universally loathed by both sexes. His furrow had therefore to be a solitary one. A dear woman might have made all the difference. Or perhaps it was just that at Oxford he fell among bad companions (Harrovians).
Jan 31, 1925.
