To-day we had geom. from 9-11. It was a fierce paper, and I was in despair about it. I did 2½ out of 7 and only 1½ right! Well, it can’t be helped; I may make up for it in the other maths papers. There was Latin from 12-2. It was a 1915 Senior Hons. Intercert. paper. Catch Fr. Dinnie Murphy writing out a paper! We only got 2 hours for it and it was a 2½-hour paper. The composition was fairly easy, and the Cicero trans. at sight about women and politics was splendid! I wish some of the women politicians in Ireland would read it. The Horace and Ovid were stiff, however. I didn’t do badly on the whole, and am quite pleased. No exam. this evening, so I thought I’d go up to Markie for tennis. On arriving, found a whole crowd of ladies playing there, Markie among them, so I went off again. Went up again after tea, thinking they would be gone, but they were all there yet. But I plucked up courage, and went over. As a result I got a few good games of tennis and a fine feed of lemonade, jelly, fruit and cream afterwards. I wish I could get over my shyness and blushes, because it spoils all fun. When I came home I did some Addison for to-morrow’s exam.
