Had great fun in school My class are a merry lot. Had to go to town for Páp, so got [number] 20 ‘Lands and Peoples’. – Poor Mám has had a terrible lot of excitement lately, in addition that Páp has been rather grumpy. So to-day when she came home after getting the cups for Mrs. Stockley, her heart got bad, and she got a weakness. – It was terrible to see her so bad, and reminded me of those awful days long ago when poor Fr. Pat used to go into dead faints for hours at a time. Brought her up to bed, but the agony was constantly recurring. Poor Mám becomes really Iago-like when she gets bad like that, and suspects everyone to be conspiring against her. After becoming bilious she got a little better, and finally quite well again, when I was studying in the bedroom. After the worst catastrophe there is always hope, and now again the world appeared normal again, though I thought it never could. I saw everything so distracted and confused during her sickness.
