9 January

No chance to talk to Miss Prism about her indiscretion in regards to the Peter incident. She cut short our lessons today, making some excuse about having an excessively large number of people to pray for. Perhaps it is from the rectory that she was coming yesterday afternoon. I have settled the matter by stating definitely to Peter that we must always meet in the barn and *not* at the garden gate. Of course it is *inconvenient* that way, but I always think that inconvenience makes love so much more *intense.* Peter so *loving* today. He says he wants to be *closer* to me! We have arranged to meet tomorrow without fail.