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[[strikethrough]] THURSDAY MARCH 12, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
72nd Day                          294 Days to come

While I was waiting to leave Munich who should suddenly walk into the Regina but Putzi Hanfstaengle [[Hanfstaengl]]! He remembered me & invited me to see a movie set with him & the head of the German cinema - but I couldn't.

Monday Feb 10th

I shopped all day & ended up without enough money to pay for dinner or a bath - & Dudley took me to the circus. It was so good - with a tiger & horse & seal act, & boring ballet, & marvelous clown act which made us laugh as one only can laugh at the Marx Bros. I noticed that the seals minded the light terribly when they first entered, & two were half blind which makes me wonder all the more at their accomplishments. The tigers were large fine Siberian ones, & the trainer equally large & blonde, & I must say you could see the difference in excellent German animal trainers as compared to Barnum & Bailey's training. The acrobats were wonderful - polka [[poker]] faced & very funny & [[strikethrough]] very easy [[/[[strikethrough]] skillful [[/strikethrough]] the ease of skill, & altogether we were amazed at the success of that one ring small town circus. There was a fat Roman nosed carrot haired man sitting in a box with an elephantine hausfrau with a large swollen toothache--which should be painted by someone.  

I called on Fritz Müller after getting all dressed up, & was brokenhearted to find him out, so I never even saw his work, & Frau L was sick so couldn't come in to see me-- & all this made me very unsatisfied with my day.

[[strikethrough]] FRIDAY MARCH 13, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
73rd Day 293 Days to come

Feb 23rd

Weeks have flown by & landed me up here in the Cotswold's staying with John Arkell in the Vicarage at Chipping-Norton. So I am at last in dear old England with much loved friends & freedom! I am just in that stage of being somewhat in love which is very difficult in that I feel impatient & bored with everyone & everything except [[strikethrough]] when with [[/strikethrough]] that person. John has been an angel arranging my life here so that I've got a thousand dates & friends to amuse me every minute, so I feel dreadful in that it is Kenneth whom I always want to be with instead of John. J. guessed it yesterday, but [[strikethrough]] didn't [[/strikethrough]]] said he didn't know if K felt the same way, & that is the most awkward part of all, because I somehow doubt if K is as interested in me as I am in him. I am here to see him really, & I want to put off sailing on account of him, yet so far he has only once formally asked me out for an evening, & if it goes on this way it seems ridiculous hanging around hypocritically staying for John, & not even seeing K.  

I wonder if Kenneth feels he is upsetting John's plans by intruding, or whether he is simply not caring enough to bother more. The day I had planned to arrive he came over at 5:30 to