L. was told the other day that the raids are carried out by women.  Women's bodies were found in the wrecked aeroplanes.  They are smaller & lighter, & thus leave more room for bombs.  Perhaps its sentimental, but the thought seems to me to add a particular touch of horror.

I went to the Magic Flute, & thought rather better of humanity for having that in them. Goldie was in the same row with me, thinking I daresay much the same thoughts, though the proximity of two youthful men may have coloured them differently.  There were Roger & Pippa, & Sheppard & finally Mary Hutch. & Jack & Alix & James - all collecting in the hall for a moment in the twilight, for the sun, at 10 of a hot day, was hardly out of the sky.