TCD MS 11274/15 folio 4 verso
[9 December 1915]
seat when two girls of the demi-monde very brilliant sitting behind sniggered & one said “Ils sont chic, n’est pas, referring, I supposed, sarcastically to les Anglais represented, I supposed, by me. So now after all this you will be compelled to go and see it n’est cepas. We are getting near the time for leave surely, no orders yet as to date but from day to day orders keep cropping up relating to the subject chiefly telling you things you cannot do