11 May

Only four more days until the Charity Ball! We expect the weather to be charming, and Moulton, the gardener, has done the most *charming* things with the whole garden. He has brought in clematis and *passion flowers* for the trellis, and he has cut the topiaries in the most delightful shapes‚lions, tigers and bears. Oh my, I do love them! Miss Prism is not at all pleased with the passion flowers and clematis—she feels they are inappropriate. I feel they are lovely.

Ernest is terribly upset that he will not be able to attend. He says he will think of me exactly at midnight. What a dear, romantic boy he is!