Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 419
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in the afternoon, full of despair. The flats she likes are too expensive, & those she could get at a fair rent are usually too out of the way. She thinks that £150 a year is the outside limit for a flat for her, & we agree with her, but most of the good flats in good neighbourhoods seem to be far above that figure.
She may very possibly go up to Collaroy for a month with the Clives, & then Mother & I will be Darby & Joan again. We shall, I need hardly say, miss her & Peter very much. Peter is the life of the house, & is growing more winning every day, & everybody is his devoted slave. Eve Maher, who is staying with us, acts as head nurse, & never seems happy away from him. He says all sorts of little words now, & I know he is the greatest comfort to Mother, & that she will miss him greatly if he goes. When we ask him what Uncle Geoffrey does, he stretches his two little arms high over his head, & looks up, saying "Far-far-far", & then he says "Bang-bang-bang", & smiles all over his face. When you come back he will remember you quite well, like Aunt Liz who remembered Uncle John quite well (or said she did), although she wasn't born when he went to England.
Hugo de Burgh looked in here the other day, on his return from active service. He was in hospital for over a year before he came back, but he looks very well, & shows no outward signs of his illness. He is going to pick up his medical work again at the University.
Recruiting is certainly looking up again here, & there are far more volunteers enlisting than there have been for ages. Carmichael got his thousand, & they are now in training, & on Friday next there is going to be an organised effort to get five hundred in one day in N.S.W. The ordinary recruiting in N.S.W. is over a hundred a day