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LAUGHING TORSO said, " Have another cigarette and some port/' which I did. There was a terrific crash and we both went outside and in the sky was a thing that looked like a golden pencil. This was the first Zeppelin. We then heard several other crashes fairly near, but getting further away. I had to catch a 68 'bus to get to Chalk Farm. When I got to Chancery Lane it was about six inches deep in water. A bomb had hit a water main and a gas main, and the water was rushing down the street. I was annoyed as I had a pair of new shoes on and got them wet. The Strand was several inches deep in broken glass, as nearly all the windows had been broken. When I got to Wellington Street a huge green flame sprung up opposite the Gaiety Theatre. I thought that another bomb had dropped and sat down in the doorstep of a bank, thinking that death was rapidly approaching. I thought of my wicked life, and of my Father and my Grandmother, with a certain sentimental regret. As nothing happened I got up and thought that I would go to the Cafe Royal. The people in the 'bus that I should have taken, if I had not had another cigarette and a drink, were sitting in the 'bus with their heads blown off, as a bomb had dropped out- side. I took a 'bus to the Cafe Royal by the Savoy Hotel. In it were two Japanese. The evening cloak of one was torn to bits. He had been inside the Gaiety Theatre, but fortunately, his cloak had been hanging up in the cloak room. We all talked together of what had happened. In Paris in 1920 I met him/ I said, " I have met you in London." 86