Three telephone calls. Correspondence resumed, and interrupted by the housemaid, who wants new brooms. 11 A.M.--The children have gone; the servants are at work. Therefore: 11-11.15 A.M.--Breathing space. 11.15-11.45 A.M.--Paying bills--electricity, gas, clothes; checking the weekly books, reading laundry circulars. 12 M.--Goes out. It is probably wet [this being England], so, not being very well off, she flounders through mud. Interview with the plumber as to the boiler; shoes for Gladys; glass for the parlor-maid; brooms for the housemaid; forgets various things she ought to have done; these worry her during lunch. 1.30 P.M.--Lunch. 2.30 P.M.--Fagged out, lies down, but-- 2.45 P.M.--The husband telephones to tell her to go to the library and get him a book. 3.15 P.M.--Is fitted by the dressmaker. Feels better. 4.30 P.M.--Charming at tea. 5.45 P.M.--Compulsory games with the children. 6.15 P.M.--Ultimatum from the servants: the puppy must be killed for reasons which cannot be specified in an American magazine. 6.30-6.35 P.M.--Literature, art, music, and science. Then dress for dinner. 7.30 P.M.--Charming at dinner. Grand fantasia to entertain the male after a strenuous day in the city. Conversation: golf, business, cutting remarks about other people, and _no contradicting_. 8.45-9.15 P.M.--Literature, art, music, and science. Last post: Circulars, bills, invitations to be answered; request from a brother in India to send jam which can be bought only in a suburb fourteen miles distant. 10.30 P.M.--Attempted bath, but the plumber has not mended the boiler, after all. 11 P.M.--Sleep ... up to the beginning of another nice Englishwoman's day.