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How the war drags on--! Will it really finish this year after

all--people are very depressed these last days--I do not write of any of

this in my journal--others will chronicle every shade--When I let row too wild I becoirow

rebellious

Monday: No news--yet--It is unbearable--Burton returned from Auteuil with no

clue whatsoever--except that the concierge at the Hotel de Courville

had never heard of the name of Sharp! That proves to me that "Sharp" is

not Alathea's na ladies who came and went to see Madame la Duchesse that he could

not identify anyone in particular by description

Nina turned up early on Saturday in ti in entirely new clothes--like Suzette, she has found that the

"geste" is altering--Ger Paris--Friends and

relationsin heaps, but women must have new clothes and

fashion must have her say as to their shapes--And what ato relieve war and seriousness--all the nations

would be raving lunatics by now

"Jim will be crazy about you, Nina, when he sees you in that hat!"

"Yes, won't he! I put it on to make you crazy now!"