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25 July 1904 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Monday. 25th [July 1904]. Mr Montalba came to talk to me about finding a clergyman to come here to do the service for 1st & 2nd Sundays in August as I do not wish the church closed & I offered to pay the expense. We also talked with Mr Kennedy about the arrangements about the chaplaincy & came to the conclusion that it was best to leave it as it is and not to go back to the old state of things as Mr Harston wishes—which state spells confusion & debt. I am sorry as I like Mr H. & would be sorry if he left but I am come round to see that Mr Montalba is right. We agreed to arrange it with the Bishop. Sat talking on with Mr Kennedy till lunch– After lunch we retired to our rooms till tea time when Css Rossini turned up & then the Curtis who invited us to lunch with them tomorrow. We went out afterwards to the Hospital which I showed off to Mr Kennedy & to the Eden’s garden & home to dinner. We rowed after dinner—a most glorious moonlit night. Went round by the Giudecca & the lagoons. It was pleasant & cool. We talked incessantly of old friends, diplomats & people we had known at the Embassies—& the way that my husband had been treated by the Govt and they way they are now treating Mr Kennedy trying to get him to resign & leave the service—altho’ they have no real fault to find with him. I advised him to stick on quietly in spite of them. | |
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