27 April

The tea was not a great success. Miss Lucy brown was a most horrid, spoiled little child! She wore a dress of the same fabric as mine (!), disdained my cucumber and cress sandwiches and refused *entirely* to discuss Ernest. She does not know Ernest. She is not even from London, and even if she had been from London, she does not like men. Indeed, she spent the entire tea clutching her "friend," a stuffed teddy named Aloysius, wh o*also* disdained my cucumber and cress sandwiches.