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29 April 1882 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 29th April [1882]. Alice went out to her singing lesson. Temmie came to see me & sat talking all the morning. Monty came in to the Drawing Room & talked with her & chaffed her to her great delight. It was a wet morning & showery all day. At 3 Henry & I went off to the Grosvenor Gallery Private View where there was a most tremendous crowd. The Exhibition was an unusually good one for the Grosvenor. There were many very clever things—but some horrors of Whistlers wh were insults to the British Public. One wh was called Venice by Moonlight looked like a smudged bit of canvass & as if the frame had been sent & the picture forgotten. “A scherzo in green” was child’s play—on the other hand there were fine pieces of colouring by Burne Jones, a clever piece by Miss Dolly Tennant, a pretty picture by Mrs Minch– Five things of Watts’. Henry left me there to go to the R. Academy to look at the pictures before the dinner. I met Mrs Burr & sat a little while with her & then I made my way out of the crowd & got out—but it was no easy matter. Luckily I had not long to wait for my carriage. Alice was in it. We drove to a shop in Oxford St—& just as Alice was getting out of the carriage a sudden gale arose & nearly threw her down. She held on to the carriage door. The footman’s hat was blown off & a poor woman in the street was blown right against him & hung on to him. It continued to blow hard all the afternoon & eveng. Henry came home from the R.A.—& dressed & returned to the dinner there. Barbara Layard came & brought a lady with her, sister of Sir Lintorn Simmons who has a husband in Batavia whom, it appears, has deserted her & she came to Henry to advise her how to get at him. Of course Henry could only tell her to try thro’ the F. Office. Annie Murray came to dine with me & Alice & we had a cosy evening with work & talk. Just after Miss Murray left I was talking to Alice with a pin in my mouth when suddenly I missed it– A panic took me that I must have swallowed it & I was in a great fright & rushed up stairs & called for an emetic. Hill administered mustard & water which had no effect—then I took luke warm water—then salt & water– By that time I began to calm down & we fetched up a medicine book & turning to the head “Pins” found that in case of an accident such as swallowing a pin it was best to let it alone & that it would probably dissolve in the stomach. We were then glad the emetics had failed– Henry came home after 12 & found us still in a commotion, but we all went to bed– I did not have a very good night. We found a pin sticking in my lace jabot which was most probably the missing one & went far to reassure me. | |
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