BRACERS Record Detail for 20417
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"12.15 a.m" Their wonderful time together. Now properly engaged. His people insist he stays at a hotel in Paris (not with Logan and friends). "Later on my Grandmother began: I suppose matters between you and Miss Smith are where they were. I: Well, of course things drift more or less. She: Oh there was no question of drifting: I have her mother's promise in writing, and hers in words, that it was to be nothing but simple friendship. I suppose I ought to have got hers in writing too but I never thought of it. She is as much bound in honour as any human being can be not to let anything but simple friendship arise. Poor old woman! As though such things could be ruled by all the promises in the world! And I don't know, but I imagine she exaggerated the extent of the promises." "Revolting Daughters". He finds all his passions intensified. "I remember vividly a discussion in the train with Costelloe, in which I said I meant to do Moral Science in my fourth year (it was before I was a freshman), and he said that would be too late for philosophy, as my mind would have been spoilt by the 'abstract quantum' (most untrue by the way: nothing is so useful in philosophy as a mathematical training), so I asked him what that meant, and generally drew him out on philosophy and said almost nothing myself, so of course he thought me intelligent; I realized this method even at the time." Encloses copy of letter to Grandma. To Paris tomorrow.
