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21 March 1895 — Cairo | |
Thursday. 21st March [1895]. Elaine went out at 9 o’cl with Lord Egerton of Tatton to see a review of our troops. I breakfasted in bed & then abt 10 went out into the garden in search of a sketch but found none to my liking. The Misses Churchill came to see me & to talk abt Aline Lambton’s lunching with them tomorrow as she is coming from Mena to stay with us. I finally settled myself in the large drawing room & sketched from the window a small bridge with waving bamboos over it. Lady Victoria & Aline Lambton came to luncheon with us & I afterwards went for a drive with Lady V. She at once began asking me what I thought of the marriage of her daughter & said she was longing to talk to someone about it. I said I thought it had every chance of turning out well & that I had liked Mr Mossop when we had had serious conversations together. Lady V. said she had no doubt that it would be all right altho’ they as yet knew nothing of his family. She said that Col. Lambton had taken a dislike to Mr Mossop on account of his having said jokingly that he was an Atheist—& when Mr Mossop spoke to him on Sunday he had said at once “Before we go any further are you an Atheist?” We did some shopping in Cairo & left some cards & called on Lady Hammick a cousin of Mrs Ross of Poggio Gherardo. She gave us tea & then Lady V. brought me back to this hotel– Elaine & Aline had been together in the garden & after tea came up to my room. Mr & Miss Cartwright dined with us so we were 6 in all. I had much talk with Mr C. over Henry’s autobiography & his illness—& he spoke with much feeling & admiration of him. | |
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