NOTES ON TRAVEL 217 



where every one changed their garments several times 

 a day and looked askance at the " mad English " who 

 arrived with only what they could carry. 



Tubingen was not forgotten, and Ramsay had the 

 pleasure of introducing his wife to old Mrs. Kommerell 

 and her family. This was the last time he saw his old 

 friend, as very soon after that she died and the home 

 was broken up. 



It did not, however, end his interest in her children, 

 and indeed the last time he was in Germany, in the 

 spring of 1913, he went out of his way to go to see the 

 youngest daughter and make the acquaintance of her 

 husband and family. 



Before going to Tubingen the couple stopped a night 

 at one of the large towns on the route, to visit one of 

 his fellow-students, whom he had described as the most 

 beautiful human being he had ever seen. Alas, the 

 passing of the few years since they had parted had 

 changed him into a fat, prosperous, elderly German 

 citizen with not a vestige of his former charms. 



Switzerland was next on the programme, but the rain 

 it rained every day, and after a week or two of hoping 

 it would clear, they gave it up and finished their holiday 

 in Paris till it was time to repair to Bristol and learn 

 what had been decided about the principalship, and to 

 settle down in what was to be their home for the next 

 six years. 



