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15 April 1887 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Friday. 15th [April 1887]. Worked at translation till 11.30 when Mr Burr called at 12.30. Blanche fetched me to take a walk & I went to see S.A.H. till lunch. Fred Layard lunched with us. I drove out with Blanche & we went on a hunt to find linen for Irish to work on. While she went to the dentist I went to 40 Half Moon St to see Arthur & found him at home. We consulted what was to be done abt Mildred as Mama is going away with Kate & cannot take her so I suggested he should have Mildred at his own house & engage a lady help & recommended Mrs Hambro’s Miss Stevenson. He begged me to see about her so I went to Parish’s Hotel to see Susan Hambro & found her at home & arranged she should see Miss S. & let Arthur know. B had gone to tea with Maria & sent back the carriage for me & there I joined her—& we walked home together. Henry & I played patience till dinner. We went to dine with Connie & Charlie & met Ld & Ly St. Germans, Revd & Mrs Byng. He seemed a strange man. He talked of a terrible case of suicide done by a parishioner of his a Mrs . She was at Church on Sunday—on Monday morning she went to her son of 16 who was asleep in bed & asked him for his pistol as she wanted to try & shoot at a mark. The boy half asleep told her where to find it. She took it & tried to put a charge in at the muzzle. The boy said sleepily “Oh mother that isnt the way to charge a pistol, let me show you.” He loaded it—she took it, went to a corner of his room & shot herself dead. Mr Byng took out a letter he had received from the unfortunate husband saying her mind had been unsettled by the refusal of some request of the War Office about her boy. | |
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