Sir, - Oh Mrs Robinson, dear Mrs Robinson, please, please, please don't be seduced into the snake pit. Machiavelli would be at his wits end down there. It is precisely because you don't have an ounce of his blood in your veins that you can do so much from the outside, and would be utterly destroyed at the centre. - Yours, etc.,
Kilderry, Johnswell Road, Kilkenny.