5 February

Uncle Jack has just confessed to us that he has a younger brother who is very wicked and bad! The shenanigans of this very naughty boy are the chief cause of Uncle Jack's many absences of late. It seems that this young scoundrel (he is older than me though, of course) is forever getting himself into an extraordinary amount of trouble, so much so that dear Uncle Jack is obliged to go and bail him out of jail quite often. More he will not tell us. Miss Prism is "shocked and appalled" (sp?). I, of course, am intrigued.