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1 June 1908 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Monday. 1st June [1908]. I began the morning by giving warning to my cook Skinner on account of her incompetence. To do this is always disagreeable to me—as I generally feel as if they were in the right & I in the wrong! I went on to write letters &c. Had a last interview with Ing. Radaelli the architect of the hospital. Paid him £120 to finish up—making up the sum of 27000 lire (£1100.) more than half of which I had collected in England. Prof: Trombini came to settle abt trios I am to have on Friday. Sra Malagola came to salutare me & so the morning got filled. We lunched at ¼ to 1 & then sent off Sir Arthur Fanshawe to the station to leave for Milan on his way home. Typed for a couple of hours & out at 4; went to the Montalbas where I left the 2 girls—& went on to the Hospital—interviewed Miss Milman & found all in order; went on to the Eden’s garden where the girls rejoined me. On our return home with handfuls of lovely roses I found a letter from Sir Edwin saying he cannot come here this week & wanting to come next week. I wrote telling him to do so as I wd arrange to go later to Da Laura. After dinner the girls went out in gondola & fetched Mlle de Perpigna to spend an hour with me– Lady Blanche Hozier (who is also staying at the Calcina Hotel where I got them all rooms) was in the gondola with the girls & I called her in & we had a talk till I sent them away in my gondola. It is very hot weather again. | |
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