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to attempt the passage. At side are two ordinary glass doors. Time is now about 5 & it is dark. We start off looking for hotel & wander from one to another till we have visited about 15. Finally find Dean Hotel with an attached breakfast in red red blind & little candles on tables with red shade & having settled the place of residence we went out to dine at the Rendez-vous. However this being full we went to "Au petit Riche" Le rendezvous des Gourmets 44 Old Compton St London W. phone Gerrard 5988. Here we dined intending to go to the theatre at 8. At 8 we had only finished about 3 courses out of 8 at 10 to 8 & so missed theatre. As we were too late we decide to Colosseum the largest theatre here. It is vaudeville & you can go in at any part so as it was a good meal we lingered over it till 9. At one part I got annoyed at the slowness & lapsed into French & thereafter head girl came round & chatted & showed me books she was reading. She is naive as other French girls. When we arrived at Colosseum Jack asked for seats & though girl had just given seats of a medium price to 2 people as soon as she saw me she had none below the highest price & as I thought I was being got at I refused to go there & we wandered down to Strand Corner House for coffee & refreshments. The place is owned by Lyon who is the Sergeants Ltd of London & has places everywhere. The Corner House has a round opening within, around which the floors of 4 or 5 stories run, the band being on the lower floor & sound travelling up thro opening while down below is the Hall of Mirrors which is not very much. Then at 10 we left no supper is seved after 9.30 here. Arrived at Hotel I yarned with Jack in the vestibule & then feeling done up retired to Room 111. There I tossed about on bed until after 3 am. I had smoked heavily during the day after a long abstinence due to impossibility of purchasing cigarettes of Turkish or Russian