"Don't be an old fossil," she said to me to-night, irrelevantly.

"A propos of what?" I inquired.

"Mother, here's W—— proposing to E——! Do come," cried ——, with intent to confuse. I laughed heartlessly.

Dear, dear, where will it all end? It's a sad business when you fall in love with a girl you don't like.

December 26.

Spent a romping day at the Flat. Kissed her sister twice under the mistletoe, and in the evening went to a cinema. After supper made a mock heroic speech and left hilarious.

[1] "The life of the Soul is different; there is nothing more changing, more varied, more restless ... to describe the incidents of one hour would require an eternity."—Journal of Eugénie de Guérin.

[2] See entry for November 27, 1915.


1914