Thursday afternoon we arrived at Yately Hall and were greeted by the housekeeper in the front hall facing a very wide hardwood staircase; on the other side of this hall were innumerable curiosities and antiques such as a fine collection of old canes, a pair of hunter's horns stretched across a small pair of antlers. The hat trees were also very ornate and supplied with many small limbs. From this hall we were shown into a large dining room well lit by tall French windows along one side looking out onto the old moat and at the farther end by similar French windows which opened into a green house at the south end of the house. It was in this room that we met Miss Corry for the first time and it was there also that we had tea at 4:30 in the afternoons.

Our visit at Yately Hall was very pleasant. We spent the days biking and in the evening were so tired that we went to bed early. In the household there was Miss Corry, the elderly owner of the Hall and all the surrounding land including the village of Yately; there was Mrs Panaker, a deaf widow whose son had recently been lost on flying operations; there was Miss Guggisberg, the tall, brunette daughter of a World War One Brigadier General who was serving part time in the civil nursing corps at the local hospital; there was the housekeeper, the maid and the cook who we saw little of except at meal times. These three as well as the gardener and his helper had all been on the estate at least twenty-five years. It was one of those old well-regulated homes where changes are unwelcome and rare.

During our stay at Yately we saw some of the surrounding country. One day we took our lunch and travelled south through Blackwater and Farnborough to Aldershot; there, we found the Dominion's Club where a friend of Miss Guggisberg gave us tea to drink with our lunch. On Sunday we visited Bramshill, a famous old castle owned by a notorious Nazi sympathizer, Lord Brocket, and now being used as the headquarters for the Red Cross. One day when we were crossing the famous 'Ridges' near Wellington College we met a Mrs Clark who invited us to tea; she was very glad to see someone from Canada.