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26 July 1901 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 26th [July 1901]. Sir Arthur Otway came to luncheon with me– We talked over the Parliamentary chapters he is writing for Henry’s autobiography & we consulted over his letters what phrases shd be left out & which expressions modified– I went out to pay some visits & amongst others to Mrs Arthur Hanson at Portman Mansions. On ringing at her door I was shocked to hear that she was dead. Having died last night. She has been a terrible sufferer these last 6 years or so and has of late been under the thraldom of the Christian scientists who persuaded her she ought not to die even if she had the right faith. One benefit of it was to make her either to ignore her sufferings or to be callous to them. At the door of the house I met Mrs Hilda Scaife whom I had known as a child at Constantinople & she told me about Mrs Arthur’s death & how at the last she had allowed a Dr to be called in. The sad thing was that as she had become stone deaf there was no possibility of speaking to her & she was past reading what they wrote. Can there ever have been a more lonely death. I went home at 5. Blanche looked in to arrange that Connie should dine with me & not with her. I sent my carriage to fetch her & she came & we spent a nice quiet evening together. I am to lunch tomorrow with Blanche to bed her good bye as she leaves for a Sunday visit in the afternoon & I am going to stay with Kate at Peterborough. | |
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