never felt any ill effects from it. Have cabled Jerry at
University Club. Remsen swears he saw him in London last
week. Doesn't seem possible, or would have known. M. sang
to-day at _musicale_ for Mme. M----i. Great success and
looked very beautiful. She gets a high colour singing. Hate
Frenchmen as much as I ever did. They're more monkey than
man. Magnificent new tenor-barytone just discovered--can't
recall the name. Wants to sing with M., who was much taken
with him. Worked up a few of my notes: Stokes thought well
of them.

Mar. 16.

Barytone called while I was out with Miss J. yesterday on
business. M. told me that he loved her and admits that he
kissed her. Went around to his rooms and gave him a good
licking this afternoon: warm work, for he is a big fellow.
M. cannot see anything out of the way in what she did: told
me she wished she'd married Jerry, I was so cruel. Miss J.
talked to her like a Dutch uncle. Can't have the child
treated too harshly for all the Governor-Generals Canada
ever had, and told her so. We all got pretty hot, but
nothing would budge M. till Elise happened to confide in her
that I was a man in a thousand. This for some reason struck
her forcibly and she acted like an angel. Women are
certainly strange. Nothing more done on the _Code_.

FLORENCE, Mar. 26.

Have been a week here. M. enjoys it very much. She and Miss
J. studying Italian day and night: M. takes to it like a
duck to water. Got a grammar myself and began. M. practises
faithfully. Some pleasant old ladies I knew in New Haven
called on us to-day and M.'s behaviour could not have been
better, I thought, though Miss J. objects to her crossing
her ankles. She writes very well now. It is better than a
play to hear her and Miss J. arguing over points of
etiquette. J. explained the theory of the chaperon, but M.
pinned her down to admitting that it did not apply to
married women. Then why to her? M. demanded imperiously. J.
shuffled a little, then explained that M. was an exceptional
married woman. M. inquired if that meant that she was the
only married woman that could not be trusted alone with a
man. J. replied "Unfortunately, no, Mrs. Bradl