Chapter 17: 16

16 Agatha Milsom to Olive Farebrother 15, Whittington Terrace, Bayswater 25.10.28 Dearest Olive, We are all breathing again! The Bear has taken himself off for one of his camping holidays, complete with painting outfit and half a dozen scribbling pads. He is actually going to write a book!—telling people how to live on nettles and toadstools and that sort of thing, and how in case of another Great War we could support the entire nation on boiled hedgehogs or some such nastin…