In Thursday’s paper came the announcement that Mr Lloyd George was to be prime minister & that Bucharest has fallen.

Arthur got a Daily News on Friday, the leading article was very bitter against the Daily Mail & the Northcliffe Press as it declares that Mr Asquith was forced to resign as a result of a conspiracy of the press. All this is very difficult for us who are not in the political world to follow, but all we hope is that something will be done to bring the war to an end.

Dorothea went to Stonesfield yesterday to syat with the Smiths. Saw in the paper on Friday that Prof Worthington had diet at Oxford after a short illness. A clever man and a wonderful conversationalist, I shall never forget the talks we had at mealtimes in that Hotel at Rome, at least not me, but Robert & the Prof. It is just 8 years ago (Dec 8) that I started off on that monsterous journey to Rome. How I long to go to Italy again.