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Dec 18th At Sea
My thoughts tonight have all been about home & the general situation there.  My attitude [[incidently?]] about coming away and so on.  It [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] hard, but I think I must have a great deal of patience  I know that when H. realizes that I have made up my mind to come back he will try and say a great many disagreable things and ridicule the idea of my being of any use.  If this experience has done nothing else for me I hope it will have softened me towards certain unhappy aspects of my life.  But it has done something else too.  It has made me see more clearly the line of usefulness in life and casts behind me more ruthlessly those people who will acknowledge [[underlined]] no [[/underlined]] duties or responsibilities.  God, grant me the clear vision.  Do not lose your temper about anything, but do not be trodden underfoot!