Journal 48, page 45

Wondering that nothing comes to me from them.

August 1, 1893

Nannie came back-dear little one-I wish she had come straight from her sister's home in San Sebastian Spain. She is to be with me now right on. She found me in bed by the big white procelain stove in our fine salon (fitted up for German Emperor Frederick the Good) and cossetted by Cossie "as one whom his mother comforteth." We meant to read so much especially in German works on socialism. Made a beginning up on these hills of God and thought much & talked. We have joined the Fabian Soc. & so far as we understand ourselves we are New Testament socialists.

August 2, 1893

Dearie Andrew & Bushnell here from Grundenwald. Much talk & planning though I was in bed-having been up & out to ride & relapsed into my old symptoms. The Duke of York scandal was canvassed. They say the grandson of Dean Trench [?] told them he knew the Duke had a wife & 2 children. She was a Miss Vincent- highly connected in British navy. The Duke had not supposed himself in the succession & so permitted his heart to rule, marrying morganatically before the Duke of Clarence died. But then the Queen insisted that George's marriage was invalid because no member of the royal family can marry without permission of the sovereign-so in spite of his protests he had to marry Princess May! So "underfoot" are the newspapers they dare not speak of it. Stead would have done so in other years but he is now sought by Lady Brook (mistress of Prince of Wales) & is silent-except as, without her knowledge or consent, he bruited the matter (as if editorially!) in Lady Henry's paper! Petticoats to hide behind! I am grieved to the heart about Stead's decadence.

[above entry written in August 3 page as well as August 2.]

August 4, 1393

All this scratching is days after the fact & done in purely mechanical fashion-I don't know that it pays.

We all believe that Sir George Tryon had liquor on board & for that reason (4 times reminded tho' he was of the dangerous character of his order) he held to it & drowned himself & shipload! How awful the contemplation. And the court martial proper (admirals themselves & captains) never asked the crucial question Was there any reason why Sir George was not at his best?"_____

Dr. Kate & Little Andrew will go to our conventions & I do so hope to go.

August 5, 1893