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24 March 1884 — 3 Savile Row | |
Monday. 24th [March 1884]. Alice went out. I stayed in & wrote. Mrs Poynter came to lunch as did Maria. I sent my carriage to fetch Connie & when she came we went together for a drive, left cards &c & I brought her home to tea with me. Blanche came to tea & Annie & Mr Hallam Murray & we had some music. In the midst of it in came a lady who was introduced as Mrs Warrington Smyth whom I could not recollect having seen before. She explained to me that her husband had known Henry & she was interested in Midhat Pasha’s children for whom I was collecting money. She was rather nervous & I very bewildered as I could not call to mind anything about her. Henry & I went to dine with Lady Somers. Miss Cocks her niece dined in costume as she was going on to act in an operetta at Mrs Ricardo’s house & she looked very pretty & was very nicely dressed. Lady Somers was kind as usual but in spirits sometimes very low & nearly burst out crying once or twice. After dinner when Miss Cocks was gone she took us up to sit in the drawing room which looked dull & cheerless without the knicknacks which showed it is inhabited & it seemed to me full of memories of Lord Somers for the last time we were in the room he was there. Lady Somers fell on the subject of the Coutts Lindsay disagreements & she blamed much Lady Lindsays conduct & read me a lecture on the duty of woman to put up with the inevitable results of the weakness of man the result of wh was to me to make me disgusted with life in general. | |
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