On Betty Cross.

"She had a very low opinion of BR. She said he was a hypocritical humbug—he maybe was in some ways. She resented his denigrating the school and sending spies—to say the place was dirty and the children neglected—and order to get control of John and Kate. It annoyed me too—at the time. But you have to take the bad with the good and he was admirable in other ways. Probably Dora drove him to it—and Peter Spence egged him on."