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17 August 1898 — Peterborough Minster Precincts, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | |
Wednesday. 17th August [1898]. Sat with Kate & Cecil in the morng and explained to the latter all about Nellie & Mr Wild’s affairs. After lunch Kate, Eda & I went to the market place & took a cab & drove to Orton. The Huntly’s being absent we did not go to their place but we walked across the fields to the river & there at the “Staunch” as they call a wear here, we found Reggie & Mary who had come up in a boat bringing the tea baskets from Peterborough. We all got into the boat & went up the river to the Milton Woods—landed & made tea after wh Mary took photographs of us. Then we got again into the boat & rowed up to the bridge—& there found Cecil who had come on his bycicle. Eda & I joined him & we decided to walk home, she & I, & her father went on—on his bicycle. Eda & I had a very nice walk through Long Thorpe village & the park of Thorpe which is a house built by Inigo Jones & is very like Uffington only rather larger. We made a 3 mile walk of it. Kate was to come home in the boat with Reggie & Mary. They had not arrived when we got home—so Eda & I set off down to the river to look for them & after waiting a little while Kate turned up on foot having walked from the Orton Staunch—we came home quickly as it was past 8 & the young people soon followed us. We sat talking in the drawing room in the eveng till past 11– | |
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