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Helen Munro Ferguson) whose husband before the war, was Ambassador at Petersburg, now Petrograd. Lady Leitrim whose husband is associated with Mr. Walter Long at the Colonial Office, Lady Dawkins whose sister-in-law, Lady Bertha is Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria. At the houses of these I was delightfully entertained and before leaving, Lady Bertha invited me to Buckingham Palace and showed me much that was interesting. The Room in which many of our men have been invested by His Majesty had a special charm.
At Lady Dawkin's in Belgrave Square I met Maud Valerie White the song writer.
On New Years Day, Ron and I attended a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Dunn at the Mansion House.
My neighbour proved to be Mr. Pett Ridge the author, who seeing my name on the place as from Melbourne, asked if I knew Miss Edith Onions Secretary to the Newsboys Society, and that was at once a common bond. On the 26th January I presided at the annual dinner of the United Empire Circle at the Lyceum Club.
Again I had a pleasant surprise by Cecil arriving unexpectedly for the week-end, and on the Sunday we together accepted an invitation to visit the Princess Henry of Battenburg and the Hon. Miss Phipps at Kensington Palace.
On the 6th February, Mrs. Andrew Fisher gave an At Home at the Ladies Empire Club and invited several ladies to meet me. The day following Lady Herbert invited me to view the procession going to the Opening of Parliament from her house in Pall Mall and that was the first time I saw the King and Queen since their visit to open our Commonwealth Parliament and realised that the years had sped and that war worry had left its mark.
On the 8th of February after taking tea with the Duchess of St. Albans, I drove to a reception given by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at Clarence House and that proved