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11 February 1882 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 11th February [1882]. I breakfasted in bed. The boil on my back was evidently on the increase. Mr Burton came to see abt my knee & he recommended me a linseed poultice for the boil. Down late. Wrote a few letters. Lord Lytton came to see Henry & I left them talking & I went off at 1 to Melony Scobells wedding breakfast she having just today married Mr À’Court. I found a standboard breakfast going on, & made my luncheon there. I came straight home as soon as the happy pair drove off. Spent some time trying to sort the books in Henry’s sitting room. Alice Du Cane & Ethel Ponsonby came & sat a little while while I was at work & Ethel begged me to talk to Alice who had got into her head that she wanted to be a Sister of Mercy. I expostulated with her & did all I could to dissuade her and she cried a bit. Then I went down & recd a visit from Mr Alexander. Henry & Blanche came in to T. They had been together to the National Gallery & came home tired. Mama called later. Henry & I dined with Lady Hayter—met Mr & Mrs Childers & Miss C., Sir John & Lady Heathcote Amory & Mr Clifford. Mr Childers took me to dinner & I sat between him & Sir Arthur Hayter. The Hayters are living in a corner house in the Grosvenor Sqr No. 8 a very nice one. The dining room is all panelled with white & gold wood saved in the Commune from the Hotel de Ville when it was burnt. It belongs to Lord Cowper who underlet the house to the Hayters. Lady Amory was very grand—resplendent in diamonds & dressed regardless of expense. She goes in for the clever political woman & gives herself airs accordingly. I remember her as Mary Unwin when her parents lived in a cottage on Putney Heath & they were in humbler circes. We went on to Lady Stanhope’s party where we found very few people we knew & thence to Spencer House where we found lots of people. I was not sorry to get home & to bed as the boil I have on my back was painful. | |
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