Davies tells BR, "I read your letter as meaning that while you would prefer no divorce to Dora's having sole custody, you might, if divorce were thereby facilitated, and it were the only alternative to sole custody by Dora, acquiesce in the intervention of some third party."

"When you say that you are opposed to proceeding with the Chancery application unless it can be concealed from the court that you are living in open sin, I think you mean that you are opposed, unless the matter can be dealt with before the judge in such a way that he would not penalise you for living in sin."

Typed copy is document .101011fx, record 115912.