Yesterday Dorothea came up. She brought up the children with Mary F to help her on the way to Seaton. Poor old D, how terribly lost she will be without them now.

I saw her off by the 2.23 train & out of it got Bob. As I was going to meet Margaret Hext that aft, Bob stuck to me, & we arranged to go on the river, but after all she could not come, so B & I went alone. I had to row as he couldn’t. It was very nice day there & we had a cosy chat & B & got back in time for me to be on duty again.

We had plenty to do now which is a comfort, but this hot weather is rather trying. It has been gloriously fine ever since my return. Bob was full of a Zeppelin raid that he saw in town. He was returning from Kingston at 10.30 p.m. & arriving at Waterloo heard a tremendous lot of firing & there he saw the Zeppelin. The anti-aircraft guns were hard at work on it & the searchlights playing round, but they failed to get it. Bob described it as a “very pretty bit of sport.” However they managed to do a pretty considerable amount of damage. Of this of course there is no mention in the papers, only the fact that the Zeppelin’s came to London. More are expected any night, especially these lovely still nights.