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24 March 1910 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 24th [March 1910]. We all went to morning service & after it I went to pay a visit to Angela & with Nela walked in the Piazza—the weather being lovely & the sun deliciously warm. On going in to church I found a widow sitting in my usual seat & did not particularly look at her & left the church before she did. Later I recd a note from Lady Walsham saying she was the little widow of a first secretary who had been with Henry at Madrid about 1875 and that she knew she was much changed at had not been surprised at my not having recognized the widow who had sat by me that morning. I was dreadfully sorry and wrote to beg her to come & see me—& later she telephoned to say her niece was ill & to ask me to send a Dr which I did & I asked her to lunch with us tomorrow. I had yet no real cook as the English woman had been packed off– Today an old Italian came to take the office but gave us such bad fare that I would not let him come again & made shift with Amelia the Italian kitchen maid who has served me 8 years. | |
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