LATER: I can hardly write. Switzerland is a settled thing.
Father is not home tonight and I cannot apeal to him. Susan
Paget said I was drinking to, and mother is having the vibrater
used on her spine. If I felt better I would run away.
JANUARY 26TH. How can I write what has happened? It is so
terrable.
Beresford went at ten o'clock to ask for Leila, and did not
send in his card for fear father would refuse to see him. And
father thought, from his saying that he had come to ask for
somthing, and so on, that it was Adrian, and threw him out. He
ordered him out first, and Beresford refused to go, and they had
words, and then there was a fight. The Reporters got it, and it
is in all the papers. Hannah has just brought one in. It is
headed "Manufacturer assaults Peer." Leila is in bed, and the
doctor is with her.
LATER: Adrian has disapeared. The manager has just called
up, and with shaking knees I went to the telephone. Adrian went
to the mill a little after ten, and has not been seen since.
It is in vain I protest that he has not eloped with me. It
is almost time now for the Matinee and no Adrian.
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