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21 May 1898 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 21st May [1898]. Arthur had a good night & eat a good breakfast. It did not rain today but was dull. I took all the plants down to the yard & watered them & arranged some flowers Lady Gregory sent me by post from Ireland some lovely peonies. Mary Alderson came & stayed to lunch. Mildred came but did not see her father as I had hoped she might. Col. Edward Mansell Pleydell came also hoping to see him but he did not. Abt 1 I went in to the drawing room where Arthur lay on his couch & he then told me he had a fancy to have a pork cutlet & some champagne– I at once ordered both altho’ much surprised & doubting he would really eat it. However when the time came he eat the cutlet & some rice pudding & drank a good glass of champagne. Altogether he was better today except that his head was not always clear. Laing the nursery gardener sent him some lovely flowers wh I arranged for him. When he went to sleep after lunch Nellie & I went out for a walk to Vere St to tell Miss Long that the barrels had come for the shrub in my courtyard. Nellie got Mr Panter to send them to me from the S.W. Railway works—knowing Arthur would have ordered them for me had he been well. Amy (née Layard) & Mr Percival came to tea & paid me a long visit. Nellie telegraphed to Rhuvon at Cairo to say Dr Bond advises his being home to see his father at the end of this month. Abt 6 Arthur sent for Nellie. As she was out I went & sat with him for an hour. His couch had been wheeled back to his own room. Bond came to see him late—abt 8—so Nellie & I dined rather late. Bond found him a good deal better– Read in the eveng & when Nellie went off to Half Moon St to bed—I also retired. The Queen’s birthday was kept today & this evening. Poole the tailors great illumination opposite us was lit up. | |
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