"The Labour meeting this morning was a great success. ... D. had no doubt as to what their answer would be. ... This was a great victory... Lloyd George is Prime Minister."

"I cannot let the present occasion pass without writing to give some expression to the overwhelming regret and deep emotion with which I am..."

"Beb and I lunched at Downing Street. Found Margot at the top of the stairs, looking ghastly ill... saying it had only just been remembered that the Connaughts were coming... To marry an American is bad enough—but a poor American!"