Got first in English quite unexpectedly with 180/300. Next ‘Cha’ Connor with 150/300. The questions about Wordsworth’s idea of Prose and Poetry I seem to have done well because Fr. Dalton told the other fellows to take it down. Got home early for that wretched bazaar. Sophie and another of Mám’s pupils were for dinner and then we all set out, I wearing a specially made black and white badge. Our stall and the pupils surrounding it with their black dresses and caps and a white feather sticking from it, their artists’ costume being complete with manuscript, palette and scroll, looked especially distingué. But in general the bazaar is a fiasco. Nobody came and the Lord Mayor did not arrive for the opening. Business was hopelessly slack. Only for the 200 gaily-dressed pupils, the hall would be empty. Gambled with 2/-, won 2/6, bought 4 tickets of our stall, lost the rest and remained bankrupt. Trayton-Adams, belonging to our society, who recently came back from India, told me a lot about the Punjab. Total receipts ₤7 approx. One feels tired and disgusted after such a melée.
