(o) To talk internal politics with Louvois.
(p) To listen to Le Nôtre's account of Lord Carlisle's new garden.
(q) To listen to Bossuet's sermon on Sunday.
(r) Not to annoy the Duchesse de La Vallière.
(s) To have to look as if I thought the King an amusing conversationalist.
(t) To say that a Bal Masqué is great fun.
(u) To go to the opera at the back of a box.
(v) To pretend I like Dutch pictures.
(w) To dance all night in a room like a monkey cage.
(x) To read the Gazette.