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[[strikethrough]] SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
74th Day   292 Days to come

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find I hadn't come, so he left a note saying to keep Wed. free, but that he had dates for [[strikethrough]] Monday [[/strikethrough]] that night & the next. I saw him Wed - & we had great fun - Denny & J & I first at a cocktail party & later alone at "Lyons" dancing & eating. On Friday John & he fixed up another date so that Denny & his sister & K & I went to a Kensington Club [[strikethrough]] dinner [[/strikethrough]] dance after dining with John earlier. K didn't dance much with me, & altogether it wasn't much fun, until went went to Denny's to meet his interesting brother. That night when he took me home he said that the one subject on which he needed analysis was with [[strikethrough]] girls [[/strikethrough]] his girl-shyness. That time when he took me home, & [[strikethrough]] and th [[/strikethrough]] the first meeting when he had taken me to the cocktail party are the only two times I have seen him alone, & though I have seen him two out of four evenings - he hasn't asked me to lunch or anything really except to go to Eton yesterday to see pictures etc. & on Tuesday night - but not even Monday. I suggested his coming [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] here when he was in Oxford this weekend. but he hasn't come. It is all very dull & boring - [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] &

Federal Income Tax must be filed today

[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
75th Day   3rd Sunday in Lent 291 Days to come

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quite tantalizing when I think of how mean it is to [[strikethrough]]  sailin [[/strikethrough]] John, [[strikethrough]] & not [[/strikethrough]] how near it is to sailing.

I am spending a week with Babs [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] & John from tomorrow on - which will consist of luxury, good service, political talk, political people, their children, etc etc. As I am writing this on the boat I can describe it briefly. I was sick three of those days - & John & Kenneth & Denny & a Seymour friend of John's & a nice Doctor - unusually nice, visited me & sent [[strikethrough]] me [[/strikethrough]] flowers, & in between times I drew sloppily from my imagination. I had lovely long talks with Babs, because of John's hours in the House of C are from noon until midnight or later - & one night he didn't come home at all till 11 the next a.m., for fear the socialists would win a vote - so Babs & I talked till 2 a.m. I heard lots of political talk which made me feel like a Swann out of water - but it was very interesting in spite of the fact that my instinct told me it was too gossipy & silly to be anything but "talking shop." I met well known people galore too.