A few days ago when Mám came home late in the night, she was told by our neighbour Miss Walsh that people were trying to break in, and the door was crushed in one part. All last night we heard things falling etc. and in the morning Mám thought someone tried to open the door of one room. So she wouldn’t let me go to Mass in case of anything happening in my absence. It must have been only cats however. – Went for messages, got 13 and 14 ‘Lands and Peoples’, wrote to Páp and tidied all the pantry before dinner. We had a charwoman in to clean up the house. After we went to see Uncle Hans and Aunt Dulcie off. They are really charming. Aunt Dulcie has changed immensely since we saw her in London 8 years ago. ((In September 1920 (i.e. 6 years previously) the Fleischmanns had stayed with Hans Anton and Dulcie Swertz in London, where Hans worked as a doctor. Tilly and Aloys jun. had come to meet Aloys sen who had at last been granted permission to return to Ireland. He had been deported to Germany from the Isle of Man internment camp in 1919. There is a photo of them all in Kew Gardens. The last sentence might indicate that they had not found Dulcie so charming then.)) After tea I went to Markie where I had great sets of tennis with himself and his two sisters. Mám went to Miss O’Brien, who has changed her plans, and is not going to Germany, but has taken a house in Charlemont Terrace near us. Hip, Hip! Mám went also to Nannie.
