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[[strikethrough]] THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] 170th Day 196 Days to come April 20th Tonight was mummie's & P's benefit dinner for the Seamen's library - & between Bob Bartlett's speech & Barclay singing Sea Shanties, & the presence of Dorothy Gish & Jonas Lie [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] etc - it was a really entertaining & well run evening. Mum did a wonderful job - especially as she is trying to get off to Egypt - & I only helped her by having a table which I seated excellently as I sat between Mait & Summy Putnam, who in spite of being engaged, is almost as receptive & attractive as ever. We talked a lot later when Lucy, Livy, Aggie, Paulie [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]], the singer etc went up to the bar. I must say I will always feel that Summy is a person who, if circumstances had coöperated, (though circumstantial help wasn't even necessary) might have [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] become a really great friend, or a [[strikethrough]] honeybear [[/strikethrough]] serious beau whom I would have taken equally seriously. There is a balance of sympathy between us which [[strikethrough]] makes it [[/strikethrough]] is painful to overlook. This was a delightful evening, in spite of the humiliation I felt when 2 girls & I sat alone half through dinner untill the others arrived. I am fed-up with the humiliation I have felt in the last 3 days! [[strikethrough]] FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] 171st Day Feast of Sacred Heart 195 Days to come April 23rd Today I loved work - because God got mixed up & gave us a crisp sparkling autumn atmosphere which gave me the "energy of [[strikethrough]] China [[/strikethrough]] Japan" & the "endurance of China" - with the result that my figure of a man is very strong & alive & right - though it can never rise above its classroom pose. Warneke was almost as pleased as I - & somehow in spite of my winter away from it - I seem to be more advanced than ever before. I have a theory that if one has the kind of mind that relates things (for everything is really so alike & so related) - ones learns about anything [[strikethrough]] just by some [[/strikethrough]] even by doing something different. I learnt about art from skiing for instance. I used to get so depressed & unconfident in skiing until I saw other girls laughing off their bad days - & being good sports when they did their worst - taking it all in the days run. I transated this lesson if laughing off bad moments in art too, & what a help that is. Of course the technique is pure practise - but that will come, though when I think of how much I learn in one days work, I [[strikethrough]] sud [[/strikethrough]] shudder to think how much I miss in four months! Mum
