Jan 18 Wed.

Montague's last day.
Dictionary; Laura got up late and spent all the afternoon in the presence of M & me explaining to D her attitude.
In the evening we went to Hotel Ouest & had supper: & several Grand Marniers1.
A Montauban expression about a knife being as blunt as 'les fesses de Simon'2.
Lawrence books3 arrived: I like them.
This was the day tipped by the F.O. [Foreign Office] last Nov [November] as the next Crisis: it is now postponed till [until] Feb [February] 4.

Editorial Notes

1liqueur eds.
2 "Simon's arse" KG
3 T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer. Graves' book and Liddell Hart's book were packed together as a boxed set (see Higginson re. A49 b. First English issue [1939]. eds.