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been done before in all the weeks
the late King was there. In fact
more stuff went up that one week
than at any previous time - all in order
for Mrs S. to dine off the gold plate
belonging to the British Sovereign, surrounded
by Dukes and Duchesses!! All kept waiting
until any hour of the morning, before they
knew what the King wished them
to do. Did ever you hear of anything
so humiliating. It is quite true that
someone chalked up on the walls of Aberdeen
as they would have done in Belfast -
"Down with the American harlot". I think
we are really well out of it all - as anything
might have happened - and then it would