Lord Roberts is to be buried to day in St Pauls Cathedral. Barbara Betts & Patience came over in the morning & stayed until after lunch.

Patience was a little ray of light & joy in a day of many worries & depression. She is such a dear little child, & evidently enjoyed her time for she said as she went away that she would come again & had dinner with us again.

In the afternoon we had our Guild meeting & tea & games. At the end Mrs Smith read aloud from the paper letters on the seriousness of the military situation, and at the end made a most stirring appeal to them to send their brothers & men relations to recruit.

After dinner I went up to the rifle shooting & did the same to the lads, but doubt if any good will come of it. The bells were ringing a muffled peal in honour of Lord Roberts. Father who remembers tolling the bell here for the Duke of Wellington, was proud to think he could ring for Lord Roberts. So ended a very worrying and depressing day.