Worked till dinner. Mám had an at-home this evening. Mrs. Stockley and Sophia, Fr. MacCarthy, Dr. and Mrs. Donovan, Dr. Frend, Miss O’Brien came. I must say it was rather boring. There was no interesting conversation, and there was the mighty Sophia and I had no means of entertaining her. While Dr. Frend put Mám through Dr. Coué’s exercises, I read and worked at Italian stamps. The article on Persia is very interesting. A Persian salute is: ‘May your nose grow fat’! The article on Japan is great. I am learning enormously from it.
