"I can't help thinking that Marlborough finished off with Blenheim, because it is the sort of battle any one who is not even reading history has heard of," he explained, "and I have to get that idea out of my head. You will find all sorts of funny words stuck about the place. I've got 'Kajakk' pinned on to a lobelia in my flower-box, because I am always leaving out Anne of Cleves; she never seemed to have a chance, and you must have the man's wives all right." "Do you think they matter much?" I asked. "Of course they do. They are guide-posts to the reign, but they would do much better if half of them were not Katharines." I suggested that he should call one of them Kate and another Kathleen to avoid confusion, but he said that "Kajakk" would pull him through all right, and that if there was any question about Henry VIII. he did not mean to miss is. I am certain that had he been given an opportunity, the examiners would have had a correct list of these ladies, with a brief note attached to explain why there were so many of them. Soon after the Eights were over, I heard that The Bradder had invited my people to come up at the end of the term, and as I had never stayed up for "Commem," I wrote back cheerfully, and said we would enjoy ourselves. This letter, however, was answered by my father at once, and my plans were again thrown into confusion. "I want you to leave for Germany when term is over. To get even a smattering of the language you must be there nearly three months, and, unless you go immediately, you will miss all the shooting. I want you to know three modern languages well enough to get into the Foreign Office without any difficulty." This was the beginning of the longest letter I had ever had from him, and in many ways the nicest, but I cannot say that I wanted to spend my summer with a German family, and after consulting Fred, I went to The Bradder to see if he would not help me to stay in England. "I can't read history and learn German at the same time," I said to him, "and all my work will be wasted unless I do some this vac." "Your father has evidently made up his mind," he said, but I think that he must have been sorry for me. "You write and tell him that I shall forget all I have been doing. He will listen to you." "German is very valuable to you." "So is history. How can I be expected to work next year when I am packed off every summer to live with a lot of people who don't want me? I get no fun." "You will like it when you get there, and for this summer you can manage to do enough history to keep up what you know. I will help you as much as I can."