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31 July 1899 — Paris | |
Monday. 31st [July 1899]. Ivor had a good deal of trouble in getting a compartment by sending the Hotel Porter on early to bespeak it. We had to wait at the hotel for his return with the tickets wh we were afraid would make us late. Ivor was quite calm—but it was amusing to see him giving £5 bank notes to the hotel keeper, in the street & one blew away under the horses feet! We were in plenty of time at the station to leave by 10.40 train for Plombières. The train was an express with a restaurant car so that we had a comfortable lunch & tho’ it was a very hot day we reached Plombières at 5.25 without having to change carriages. It is a very small place in the Vosges at the bottom of a little valley & shut in with nicely wooded hills. We went to the Grande Hotel des Thermes where rooms were awaiting us—they did not appear to be very comfortable & we talked of trying to find better tomorrow. We dined at 7 “a part” and played patience & went early to bed. | |
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