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Was there any fear in Capri of the influenza? Of the epidemic?

That was after the war.

It was after twenty? I thought it was just as the war was ending.

Well, maybe you're right. I have no recollection of that.

I didn't quite catch--did your father get involved in the war or not?

Yes, he got involved and I think he was an aerial cameraman but I'm not quite sure whether it was with the Escadrille--I think it was with the Escadrille Lafayette, but I'm not positive about it, but he used his photographic skills.

But he was away from home then, during that period?

Yes, he was away from home. As a matter of fact, he was away from home and I never have been able to trace exactly what happened but the marriage began to fall apart in that period there. He also, at the end of the war, went into the diplomatic service and served in Rome as a--whatever, third, fourth rank, what have you--non-professional diplomat. The family broke apart, I guess, during those years, because in 1920 my mother took my sister and