Felt pretty lonely, because Mammie has gone to Dunmanway for a few days, ((Tilly Fleischmann was visiting Father Pat MacSwiney, chaplain in Dunmanway.)) and the house is very solitary. Heard at school for the first time that the exams are coming off on Friday and Saturday, and was very disgusted, because without due notice an exam has to be ‘swotted’ for a lot. – All around my nose there has been a red mark for the past six months, due to the continual cold I have had. The injections have made my cold better, but my nose is as bad as ever, even though I rub it regularly every night with cold cream. – Swotted from 4 till 10.30 this evening for History, and got through all Mullane’s ‘History of Western Europe’ and Mariott’s ‘Remaking of Modern Europe’ ((M. J. O’Mullane, An Outline History of Western Europe, Dublin 1925, 308 pages; J. A. R. Marriott, The Remaking of Modern Europe 1789-1878, London 1910, 260 pages.)) to the Congress of Vienna, and went to bed with a bad headache; a nice start for the exam.
