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is to get the place full, indeed I don't think it would run otherwise, and they don't care who they take in - of course I feel bound to treat them decently no matter what they do, but it's hard work sometimes. One has no liberty, because if they don't like the place, they simply go away to the Museum. Old Cowles the manager who of course is quite an ass, met me in the hall the other day with joy in his face and told me that there were as many pupils in the School this year at the end of October as there were last year at the end of November. I grinned in a sickly fashion and went sadly on my way, by my faith sweet chuck me finds themselves in strange positions in this scurvy world. I feel as if all the rain in the sweet heavens would not wash my conscience clean after this winter. I find a certain comic element in this teaching. When I come into the room they are - I mean the women - look about in a sort of scared way which makes me feel like rolling around