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22 March 1884 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 22nd [March 1884]. Alice & I went in a cab to Blanche’s to arrange about Arthur & I dining with her tonight. We walked home to lunch. Arthur came in to lunch & I arranged to take him out driving & Connie came in for a little while at lunch time. Alice went off to the Pantomime to join her sisters & cousins. I had got them Lady Burdett Coutts’ box at Drury Lane. Henry went to join Blanche at the Sat Pop Concert. At 3 I went out & called on Lady B. Coutts abt some message from Mamma & then went to St James’ Club to fetch Arthur. We went & left several cards together & then went to Rotten Row & took a couple of turns on foot & then I took Arthur back to the club and went to call on Cornelia whose “day” it was & so she was in. Ivor came in while I was there. I returned home soon after 5. Edward Ponsonby came to tea & we congratulated him on his appointment of Secy to the Speaker. I went to dine with Blanche—Henry to dine with Sir Henry Thompson—an octave—especially for the P. of Wales. Arthur was at Blanche’s. I came home in a cab at 12 as Henry had not fetched me– Very nearly had a bad accident our cab was violently driven into by a carriage & I felt all was up—& was surprised to find nothing was broken. Two policemen came up & turned their bulls eye on & under & over the cab & pronounced it safe to proceed. Henry returned home a minute after I got to the door. We found Alice also returned from dining with her Du Cane cousins. Henry said he had had a charming dinner, besides the Prince & his equerry there was Huxley, Millais, Du Maurier, Sir Henry James. He said that in the eveng the Prince made their host give them a lecture on the operation for the stone. The equerry Col. Teesdale represented the patient & all the instruments were brought out & explained. | |
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