On Saturday evening I got off & in great excitement went home, & spent a most glorious & absolutely perfect weekend.

I have sent Miss Walsh to Kelly on Monday to have a rest, she seems to have enjoyed it much & looked a different person.

Yesterday there [was] a great confusion in packing of Frank & his family to Bude, thanks to Ellis the children were got ready in time, but Michael was dressed on the doorstep.

Father went off as his custom is, to the Devon Guild of Ringer’s meeting, & then on to London for the Central Council meeting. Miss Walsh & I returned to Exeter by the 4.42 train.

It is my fate is now to be on night duty, a game that has no pleasures for me. The weather is very hot & it is difficult to sleep in the afternoon, but perhaps it will get easier. There are too weary months of it before [me] which must be borne somehow.

As regards the affairs of the nations, Italy has now come into it & in the paper to day there is a statement that Austria has attacked Venice. On Saturday morning a most awful railway accident took place near Carlisle, a troop train ran into a local train & an express coming north ran into the wreckage. A long death roll was the result, but I cannot bring myself to read of it.

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