said appealingly, 'He'll no put - me in the office?' And I had to
assure him that he would not, even as I pushed open the door and
took him in.

The serjeant was very nice, and I got Tommy comfortably seated on a
bench, and spirited him up with good words and the scone with the
currants in it; and then, telling him I was just going out to look
for Mammy, I got my greatcoat and slipped away.

Poor little boy! he was not called for, I learn, until ten this
morning. This is very ill written, and I've missed half that was
picturesque in it; but to say truth, I am very tired and sleepy:
it was two before I got to bed. However, you see, I had my
excitement.

MONDAY. - I have written nothing all morning; I cannot settle to
it. Yes - I WILL though.

10.45. - And I did. I want to say something more to you about the
three women. I wonder so much why they should have been WOMEN, and
halt between two opinions in the matter. Sometimes I think it is
because they were made by a man for men; sometimes, again, I think
there is an abstract reason for it, and there is something more
substantive about a woman than ever there can be about a man. I
can conceive a great mythical woman, living alone among
inaccessible mountain-tops or in some lost island in the pagan
seas, and ask no more. Whereas if I hear of a Hercules, I ask
after Iole or Dejanira. I cannot think him a man without women.
But I can think of these three deep-breasted women, living out all
their days on remote hilltops, seeing the white dawn and the purple