...and I wonder about that 'strange English tutor' now...because in one lesson and in relation to a morbid bit of poetry, lamenting the death of a lover...there was one line which went something like 'the angel melts with ruthe' and he asked me what 'ruthe' might mean...i said 'if you can be ruthless then you can be 'ruthe' and so I would say PITYING...because if you act ruthlessly you are pitiless'...and he laughed and laughed...I wonder now, if he was one of SCARLETT's operatives?