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Saturday Morning:

Yesterday I was so restless I could not settle to anything I read pages

and pages of Plato and was conscious that the words were going over in

, and that the other part

of hts of Miss Sharp-- If I only dared

to be natural with her we surely could be friends, but I am always

obsessed with the fear that she will leave htest beyond the line she has marked between us-- I see that she is

determined to remain only the secretary, and I realize that it is her

breeding which makes her act as she does-- If she were familiar or

friendly with me, she would feel it was not correct to come to my flat

alone--She only comes at all because theto co this ice

mask--I know that she was affronted by Coralie's look on Thursday, and

that is why she went ho machine was out of

order--Now if any iveBurton instinctively sensed this, and that is why he

disapproved ofher to lunch--If she had been an ordinary

typist Burton would not have objected in the least,--as I said before,

Burton knows the world!

Nohat is to be done next?--I would like to go and confide in the

Duchesse, and tell her that I believe I have fallen in love with my