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15, Whittington Terrace, Bayswater13th September, 1928
Dear Olive, I really think it is very unkind of you to suggest that I like Dr. Trevor simply because he is a man. I am the last person to imagine that a woman doctor is necessarily inferior. Quite the contrary. Other things being equal I much prefer a woman, but if the man happens to be right and the woman wrong, it would be absurd not to admit it. I do feel that Dr. Trevor's treatment is doing me good, and I am not the least little bit prejudiced by the sex question one way or another. I daresay Tom has been airing his opinions, but that does not impress me at all. Men never ever get out of their heads that the whole world centres round their high-mightinesses. I'm not blaming Tom, but all men are self-centred. They can't help it. Dr. Trevor says that it is a necessary part of their psychological makeup; they have to be self-regarding, just as woman have to be other-regarding -- on account of the children and so on. But I do beg you will not take Tom's pronouncements for Gospel where I am concerned.