"Mr Norton and Countess Benckendorff arrived teatime... Mr Balfour, Ettie, Evan, Dinah and her husband Sir Iain Colquhoun and Joan Lascelles... had all arrived by dinner time."

"Darling I wish I felt the faintest inspiration, but this infernal train shakes so... Opposite me sits the P.M in a more cheerful frame of mind... I think she was quite right to tell you that I was “queer”."

"Lunched at the Prime Minister's; sat next to Mrs Asquith, who is very anxious to have New Armies sent to France at once. Saw Churchill, who is very pleased about the good news from Dardanelles."