"Bert" came down on Saturday night, but went away this morning. He is completely upset about Carrington-Smith, who says his wife is bent on divorcing him. Now that he is gone one can laugh, but while he was there we simply didn't dare. Eileen was apparently a most imprudent correspondent. Housman says she will win her case without any doubt if she brings it into court. I played golf with him all Sunday.
We had great fun after dinner last night. Mrs Housman sang songs out of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and some Offenbach, too, the _Chanson de Fortunio,_ too beautifully. George _is_ desperately in love--but I still don't think _she_ is.
GREY FARM, CARBIS BAY, _Tuesday, August_ 24_th._
I am going to stay another week as Edith can't have me yet. George was leaving to-day, as he has got to be at Plymouth for a regatta somewhere, but he has put off going till to-morrow because of the weather.
I am enjoying myself immensely. I have got to like Godfrey Mellor very much. I went for a long walk with him one afternoon. When one gets him quite alone like that he talks quite a lot and is delightful.
Mrs Carrington-Smith _is_ going to insist on divorce.
I am going to the Shamiers' on the 1st of October. I told you they have been lent a lodge in Scotland on the coast.
_Monday, August_ 16_th. Grey Farm, Carbis Bay._
Cunninghame arrived late in the evening. We talked at dinner a great deal about the likelihood of the Carrington-Smith divorce. We discussed divorce in general. Mrs Housman was of course against divorce, but she said that the rules of the Church were terribly hard on the individual in many cases. She said: "We are allowed to separate."
We all went for an expedition to the Land's End.
We all bathed in the morning. Mrs Carrington-Smith has refused to relent in spite of Housman's attempts at mediation--apparently she found some letters addressed by Miss Hope to her husband and Miss Hope was an imprudent correspondent. Lady Jarvis and I wondered why people kept letters, especially when they were compromising. Mrs Housman said she quite understood this. She never could bring herself to burn old letters, although she never looked at them.
We had luncheon on board the yacht, but after luncheon we left A. on board and went for a walk on the cliffs.