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[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
96th Day 6th Sunday in Lent (Palm Sunday) 270 Days to come
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an experiment which should have resulted with bisodol, but instead they got effervescence.  As we neared Southampton one said, "Oh [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] look at the Queen Mary" pointing to a factory building all lit up, & the [[strikethrough]] other came rushing [[/strikethrough]] answer was "so's your Aunt Tillie." 

Mr Davis came into my cabin when we were on board [[strikethrough]] and was very friendly, but I said [[/strikethrough]] & when he looked at my gramophone he drawled, "Oh, so we're goin' to have some music. [[strikethrough]] It was a [[/strikethrough]] He feels the way Paul does about gramophones so that was a poor start. He took me in to see Mrs. Davis at midnight - & they asked me to have my meals with them. I am right near them, so he is going to know whenever I play the gramophone, & how late I sleep in the morning, & I'm going to have to eat lunch & dinner daily, so my hopes for privacy & day dreaming & sleeping are done for, but it will be interesting & good for me. We all dined together tonight - Admiral Stanley & two bright youths - one of whom is brilliant I'm sure - but unlikable, & the other more human. I feel like a Swann out of water already with them.

about London
[[strikethrough]] MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
97th Day Monday in Holy Week Army Day 269 Days to come

cont S.S. Wash

I wonder so much how K feels now, because that last night just might have proved to him how much of his idealistic illusions were brought about by infatuation. I don't know how much there was left the day I left, because he wasn't so effusive & miserable as he [[strikethrough]] woul [[/strikethrough]} has been at times, & all I can remember his saying was that he was going to go out as much as possible now, so as not to think too much about me, & that he couldn't believe I was leaving, & that it had been heaven. It is nice to have the Davis's on board - & I had had tea with Mrs D in London, & then taken Kenneth there one day to meet her which he enjoyed. Before leaving I put my finger in some pies about my zoo book - through Beddington - that jew artist friend of Kenneths who advised me to take it to Tucks.  [[strikethrough]] that nigh [[/strikethrough]} He & K & I had met in the Bath Club, & John had said while Beddington was admiring my book "I'll sell you my copy for 5 bob". Kenneth said he wouldn't dream of buying it for so little, & he wouldn't even buy it for 5 guineas, which very sweetly put John in his place. John