Publisher's Synopsis
I had finished breakfast and was reading the Irish news in The Morning Post. It gave me some pleasure to read the Irish news in The Morning Post in the early part of 1922. The Republicans or the Free Staters, or some other association of brigands, had burned my house in County Clare, and I liked being told that such people come to a bad end. The Morning Post told me that every day, wittily and with emphasis. In the security of my London flat I could appreciate the wit and enjoy the emphasis. I might not have cared for either if I had been in the position of my sister Emily Chambers. She still lives in Ireland.
