esn't seem to
matter to either of them that he's her husband. They've got into
the way of looking at everybody as a case. They say it's not
even as if Colin could be got better so as to be sent out to
fight again. It would be sheer waste of Queenie.

But Cutler has given me leave to go over and see him. I shall
get to Wyck as soon as this letter.

Dear Col-Col, I wish I could do something for him. I feel as if
we could never, never do too much after all he's been through.
Fancy Eliot knowing exactly what would happen.

Your loving

Anne.

Nieuport. _September 7th._

Dear Anne,--Now that you _have_ gone I think I ought to tell you
that it would be just as well if you didn't come back. I've got
a man to take your place; Queenie picked him up at Dunkirk the
day you sailed, and he's doing very well.

The fact is we're getting on much better since you left. There's
perfect peace now. You and Queenie didn't hit it off, you know,
and for a job like ours it's absolutely essential that everybody
should pull together like one. It doesn't do to have two in a
Corps always at loggerheads.

I don't like to lose you, and I know you've done splendidly. But
I've got to choose between Queenie and you, and I must keep her,
if it's only because she's worked with me all the time. So now
that you've made the break I take the opportunity of asking you
to resign. Personally I'm sorry, but the good of the Corps must
come before everything.

Sincerely yours,

Robert Cutler.

The Manor, Wyck-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire.

_September 11th, 1915._

Dear Dicky,--This is only to say good-bye, as I shan't see you
again. Cutler's fired me out of the Corps. He _says_ it's
because Queenie and I don't hit it off. I shouldn't have thought
that was my fault, but he seems to think it is. He says there's
been perfect peace since I left.

Well, we've had some tremendous times together, and I wish we
could have gone on.

Good-bye and Good Luck,

Yours ever,

Anne Severn.

P. S.--Poor Colin Fielding's in an awful state. But he's been a
bit better since I came. Even if Cutler'd let me come back I
couldn't leave him. This is my job. The queer thing is he's
afraid of Queenie, so it's just as well she didn't come home.

Nieuport.

_September 15th, 1915