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governed.
The "Grille" which aroused in me and must have done in many another woman who felt the indignity and injustice of such a monstrosity, has since been removed.
PART 5.
As the weeks passed I found myself merged into the life of London with extraordinary naturalness and links with Australia of every day occurrence. Soon after my arrival I received an invitation from Madam Genee who delighted us all so in Melbourne with her exquisite dancing and delightful womanliness. She recalled many Australian friends as we chatted in her comfortable drawingroom overlooking Regent's Park, with its atmosphere of a winter's afternoon, and that blue-grey the artist so loves. Later she was appearing at the Colosseum and generously allotted me a box for each production, that was a great joy to me and those I was able to invite.
One evening Cecil, who came to London to take a Flying Machine back, found himself bound by "Dud" weather (an airman's phraseology) and that evening he with a young Canadian whom he was instructing shared my box. Madam Genee's representations in that night were Dances from the 13th to the present century. The costumes for each, true in every detail, and in each succeeding she was increasingly bewitching. Another artist of former days who will be remembered as our most perfect Juliet was Essie Jenyns, now Mrs. Wood, living in an old Tudor Mansion that was the home of the Lord Chancellor of England. Here she dispenses the most gracious hospitality with ever a thought for Australia. At the corner of her grounds is a special reserve for wounded soldiers and there she has a rest shelter, filtered water, magazines etc. So that limbless men who pass to and fro from Rockhampton (that now famous hospital for artificial limbs) may be refreshed by the way. Every Saturday and Sunday large parties are entertained at her house and some who are unable to get about are taken for motor
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