Lathom is extremely distressed, as you may imagine. I thought it well to warn him to show more discretion in future with regard to his choice of friends. He was too genuinely horrified and unhappy to wish to talk about the matter; still, I think he was grateful for the advice.
Unhappily, this means that we shall lose him as well, since his means do not permit of his keeping on the upper maisonnette by himself. I suggested that he might stay till the end of the quarter, but he said that he was engaged to visit some friends next month, and would be leaving anyway at the end of the week.
Este incidente me ha dejado muy claro que hay que deshacerse de la señorita Milsom. Está en un estado de histeria violenta, es obvio que padece delirios sobre sí misma y no es en absoluto una compañía adecuada para Margaret.
Le he dado un mes de sueldo en lugar de preaviso y la he mandado a casa. De todo este odioso episodio ha salido al menos una cosa buena: que ahora tengo un motivo de peso para insistir en la marcha de esta mujer.
Otras noticias han quedado más bien eclipsadas por estas preocupaciones, y deberán esperar hasta mi próxima carta. Espero que todo vaya bien por ahí.
Tu afectísimo papá