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formal dresses, and discovering an amazing growth of girth, this dress seemed best to suit the purpose.
We had rum punch before dinner -  and this did things to my stomach so that I felt I'd better not finish it. The wine we had with dinner was delicious, as was our meal.
After dinner we went to a Benefit Bridge at Sir Geoffrey & Lady Evans'. We played all evening with the Adamsons, and I found it quite enjoyable. Sir Geoffrey has been a Big Game Hunter at some period in his life, and he had a lovely tiger skin - shot in Bengal - to show for it. He had several horns and other trophies. He and Lady Evans seem quite nice - and not too formal.
The Adamson's drove us home, altho' we had taken a taxi out. Fare was $1.00 and some odd (if Dick tipped him?).

[[double underlined]] Saturday, November 30. [[/underlined]]
As I look back over the days I seem to spend an awful lot of them doing nothing. If I let the Journal go several days, I can't even remember anything

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important happening. This is one such day.
In Dick's Journal he mixed this day with Friday.

[[double underlined]] Sunday, December 1st. [[/underlined]]
Here it is the first of December, and yet it doesn't seem any more like 25 days from Christmas than - I don't know what.
I spent part of the day writing Christmas cards. This year it is a picture of the Saintes, taken from Guadeloupe, with a small picture of Dick & me in the corner.
Dick is rather "chaffing at bit" while waiting for the motor, but there is nothing much he can do about it. If he only knew for sure which ship it was on, it would simplify matters a great deal. As it is, most of the companies only seem to have a hazy idea of when their ships will be in.

[[double underlined]] Monday, December 2nd. [[/underlined]]
I started for town fairly early, but I got as far as the cleaners, and picked up my dress, than I decided that I had better
bring it home before it got all wrinkled. They did a very nice job of it but the