25 March

I really don't think it can be right for a guardian to brood all the time. Guardians are supposed to be kindly people, I had always thought. At least only very bad little boys like E and so forth should be allowed to brood—it always makes a man *so very* attractive, and certainly one's guardian is never allowed to be attractive. Well, hardly ever. It seems to me to be quite improper. Oh why did Ernest leave me alone like the sad clown of life?