There--I don't need to apologize to you or to H. got his meaning--now I have his words! No one but Kipling could do this strong and vivid thing. It was all so soon over, the feasting ended,and the principals whirling away into the future. The matter amused and interested him.
If I could read it over myself many little matters of anecdote and incident would suggest themselves to me. Miss Wallace recalls certain Kipling readings in his room, when hisfriends gathered to listen. The article appeared in the North American Review for May,1902, and stirred up a good deal of a storm. In these cases we concede that the several temperaments constitute a lawof God, a command of God, and that whatsoever is done in obedience tothat law is blameless.
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