"War Ctee at 11.30 I was most cordially and almost affectionately greeted by the members on my return from leave... Afterwards he gave me a full and most amusing account of a frightful row between Ll. George and Robertson..."

"Lord Northcliffe paid a frenzied visit to the W.O. yesterday... D. discovered—at least I discovered in one case, that certain generals at the front were ventilating their reactionary views to the Press..."

"Changed into my black velvet and taxied through the rain to lunch with Bibesco. ... I came back and found Claud. He came back to the flat. We had quite an interesting speculative conversation on immortality..."