Good-bye to all that

book very painfully and slowly, with the help of a dictionary. I use

different parts of my mind for the two languages. French is a surface acquirement and I could forget it quite easily if I had no reason to use it every now and then.

V

I spent a good part of my early life at Wimbledon. My mother and father did not get rid of the house, a big one near the Common, until s...