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6 July 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 6th [July 1900]. I went to lunch with Lady Ampthill where I met Mrs A. Walrond & Mrs Bernard Mallett. Everyone in a fervent at the awful news of massacre of all the members of the European Embassies at Pekin. It is so horrible that we feel all thunderstruck & amazed at the awful thought. It is reported that all the Ambassadors had taken refuge in the English Legation where they stood a seige & resisted till the walls were battered down & every foreigner put to the sword—also that the whites all shot their wives & children before the place was taken– What a hideous picture! what horrors I walked after lunch to Cavendish Square to see Blanche. She was just going out to drive & I went with her & she left me in Carlton Terrace where I paid a visit to my cousin Gracie Lady Lonsdale– A charming, handsome good woman who has been an angel of goodness to a very bad husband. From there I walked home to tea. Nelly & I dined at Wimborne House. Cornelia had suddenly gone off to Canford but Ivor was there & Elaine & Mr Villiers. | |
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