Oct 16 Sunday

Alan's birthday. Dictionary
Alan did not realize that a big party was being arranged for him in the evening in the Chapel: which we had converted into a sort of Bower with bracken, Spanish chestnut shoots, boughs with apples, holly, vine, and a collection of frightful fungus.
We had supper ×××× [indecipherable] with a big table, covered with food & strewn with sweets, and extemporized a play in which Dorothy could somehow not join. But just before I had left the[RG] a lamp smoking in Laura's dressing room and this, and, the washroom & L's bedroom was covered with a thick layer of smuts, with black cobwebs festooned from ceilings – like a picture of a miser's den. I worked till [until] 3.15 cleaning while Laura did Aristotle1.

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