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11 July 1908 — Canford Manor, nr. Wimborne, Dorset | |
Saturday. 11th [July 1908]. A rather grey day but not raining till the evening. Freddie left early. Ivor much confused & Cornelia very upset & worried. I tried to cheer her by reflecting that the Dr was returning today at 3. I also persuaded her to go for a walk before lunch. We walked down to see the building of the new lodge on the Kinson Road. I tried to make up the difference between Connie & her—in which Cor. had been quite in the wrong. The 2 boys lunched with Miss Anderson & me & then left. After the Dr had arrived went with Cornelia out in motor to Wallis Green where she went to see the Liberal Club just established. I took the opportunity of asking her why she had so suddenly changed her politics from Tory to Radical. She declared she is now much happier & that she had never been Tory at heart—nor had her brother Lord Randolph. That her joining the Radicals was the outcome of a great dinner she had given at Wimborne House when the question of Free Trade had been discussed & had caused many Conservatives there & then to break away from their old party & join the Liberals. She said that dinner was a piece of history. I said she had gone slap round & she said it was so apparently & she accepted all the reproaches but that she is now far happier as she has a wider sympathy with the poor & their hunger for land—& so the question turned away after a few trite & foolish remarks on my part—I who know nothing about politics. I remember also that she said she was happier now than she had ever been “since I began my political career!” The Dr was added to our party at dinner tonight. | |
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