Happy Thought.

   —To have an In-door Amusement Hall for Wet Weather.

   “Will your Amusement hall be

    the

   Hall?”

   “Well . . . Yes.”

   “Then the front door will be . . .?”

   I indicate in dots the front door, and the drive.

   “Precisely,” says Boodels, “and just as you're in the middle of a game of something, up comes a party to call; you can't say you're not at home, and the servants can't open the door while the ball, or whatever it is, is flying about.”

   True . . . Then . . . bring it more forward. Or make a new plan.

   “Then the bath-room's forgotten,” says Milburd. Add it in dots to tennis court.

   Then over every room there'll be a bed-room and dressing-room. So that'll be a good house.

   “What style?” asks Cazell.

   “Elizabethan, decidedly,” I reply. They think not.

   “Gothic's useful,” says Boodels.

   “Italian's better,” observes Milburd.

   “Something between the two,” suggests Cazell.

   Twelve rooms below, twelve above. Stables outside, added subsequently.

    Happy Thought.

   —Submit this to Chilvern, my architectural friend.

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