“Tash has her hair up & looks very handsome with it. They talked about men & love, & the ridiculous flirting at Rinn, girls falling in violent temporary love with me etc. Kitty used to lecture them on the folly of it, & how they wd regret it when they met the man they really wanted to marry, & they wd say it was quite true but they couldn’t help it. K. seems totally insensible to masculine charms, & doubts the existence of real love. She asked me wd I think a girl to blame for not caring about a good man who wanted to marry her; I wonder who he is.”
WEEK 49: (2nd – 8th September 1918)
“Wheeler informed me they wanted to make Gallagher vice president, so I said I had no objection, though I don’t think much of him for the post, & they wanted me to be financial see, but I repelled the idea.”