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9 July 1909 — Carlsbad | |
Friday. 9th [July 1909]. After drinking at 7.30 joined Mrs B.J. & drove up to the Kaiserhof to breakfast. It was a rainy morning but held up long eno’ for us to breakfast in the open. I walked back with Mrs B.J. to the Kaiserbad & we sent Connie there on the ’bus & we met again & took her into the Gymnastic Hall to show her the exercises going on. I began the course of them today. Afterwards at 12 I took my mud bath & Connie remained to see that also—so that we only got back to the Hannover by 1 in time for our lunch & were thus out of Fasolt from 7.30 to 2 & returned tired. We rested till 4 & C. being too tired to go out again I went for a walk by myself. When I got down into the town near Pupps I was just thinking that if I met Mr Cartwright I would like to take him for a drive when I suddenly came on him saying he was very tired & worried by the crowds on the pavement that he wd have to take a drive. I told him that was just what I wished also—so he ordered a little carriage & took me a delightful drive round by St Leonards. The sun came out & the country was very pretty. Mr C. talked of many things. He showed me a little shrine wh had been built by Lady William Russell. He said she had told him she had been present at the ball at wh Lady Caroline Lamb stabbed herself for love of Lord Byron– He told me of the bench outside the English church here wh had been put there by Lady Stanley of Alderley mother of Mons. Stanley. He said someone asked Monsignor S. whether his mother had not been very distressed at his turning R.C. “Not at all, he said, why should she? One son turned Mohammedan, another was an Agnostic & she ought to have been very pleased at one of them becoming a good Christian.” Mr C. dropped me at Fasolt at 7.15 & I found Connie ready to go off to supper at Hannover. She instructed me in poker patience in the evening. | |
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