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6 February 1910 — 3 Savile Row | |
Sunday. 6th [February 1910]. Augusta & I breakfasted at 9 & then walked off to the German Chapel Royal– The P. & Pss of Wales & the youngest Prince were there—& their household & very few other people. We got back home about 11 & I continued my work of paper destruction till Augusta went out to lunch & Connie came to have that meal with me. Connie was quiet & rather sad over her many troubles of wh she is seldom free. She has a large family & her income is not large. It is a problem what to do for her. When she left at 3 I walked to Bruton Street to see Adeline Dss of Bedford who had telephoned to ask me to do so. We had an hour’s quiet talk. She tells me Lady Somers is slowly dying of cancer & has to be kept under morphia but she is over 80. Just as I was leaving Miss Ethel Cadogan came in—the late Queen’s lady– I had not seen her for a long time. She is not much altered. I then went home to tea. Mr Charles Arbuthnot came to see me & gave me some gossip. Hawthorn Asquith is supposed to have refused to attend the King’s party last week & had hurried to the Riviera where he was to meet Lloyd George. This he said he knew from Sir Arthur Bigge. He said also that last year the Asquiths gave a large evening party to wh were invited the foreign Ambassadors &c that morning Mrs Asquith left for Paris & Asquith left the entertaining of his guests & sat down to play Bridge. Augusta dined out & I spent the evening finishing my work of tearing up letters I had received from various friends on Henry’s death. It was of no use keeping them all. I kept a few from important people. There were over 250 letters & 50 telegrams. Reading them over was a melancholy task & made me very miserable. “I thought once more he seemed to die”– But I finished the work by bed time. | |
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