Great excitement in school about the match. Discovered that my knee, which I scratched a few days ago, had swollen a lot and was very sore, so got iodine put on it by the Reverend Mother. – Mám and I were astonished to get a letter from Miss O’Brien, who went to London some days ago for her health (otiosis sibi cavere tempus habet) saying she was advised to go to south France for her nerves (!), for she is run-down, and needs change of air, country and people! That means that we won’t see her till at least after Xmas. It came so suddenly that it is quite a shock. We have few enough friends here, goodness knows. Páp went to-day to Bantry giving lessons for first time. – Saw that Emperor of Japan is at present very sick. So Japan is an empire, about which I was always uncertain.
