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28 April 1910 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Thursday. 28th [April 1910]. Ola writes that she will return here next Tuesday, Daisy being better. Young Franchetti came in after luncheon & amused us as usual with his half naif half serious or funny talk till 3 when we went out. I had a telegram from Lord Howe on the Royal Yacht Corfù asking if I knew the shop where the Queen had bought iron gates last year, we telephoned in vain to all the shops but could not find out. I went to see Angela for a few moments but she had the Morosini girl with her so I did not stay more than a few moments & rejoining Lady Vivian we went on together to tea with Hilda Keppel & Miss Broderick at the Casetta Rossa which they have hired of Mr Woods. Miss B. who is half Russian talked about the state of Russia & said that her mother used to say that the country could never go forward until it was divided up—as it was too vast for good government. She says the villages are in some parts 60 miles apart! She talked about Egypt also & M. Maspero. How when we was in his work he was like a boy & would say he felt he must play—then after laughing & joking he would suddenly become serious & say “now let us go to work!” She told us that she herself had begun life in Murray’s office when quite a girl in the time of the late John Murray. How she had found errors in Renouf’s handbook of Egypt & had been asked to revise it herself. We went on to the hospital & for a turn on the lagunes. Dined with the Whitakers. | |
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