Siena Ring Train

I decided to have breakfast in bed and studied the Italian grammar as usual. Then I dressed and went out into the Park, wrote to F.B.H. at Le Lune and sent some postals to the nieces, and Baby-John.

Helen lay down after lunch but I did not. I ripped off, mended and put to soak the lace from my gray silk waist.* Afterwards Helen washed it for me. I felt very tired and went to walk with Helen to get some wood alcohol. Then we rode in the funny overhead ring train from one end of the route to the other. Then as I was very tired, I came home and went to bed and had bread and milk for dinner. Helen went to the cinematograph with Miss Hortense Oudesluys. About eleven, I was so sick that I threw up all my supper which made me feel easier and I slept pretty well.

*blouse

Cinemattograph

It did rain about 9 so I gave up my trip to Florence where I was going to spend the day with Helen. I had breakfast in bed. However it cleared off at 10 so I made up my mind to go. Dressed and got to the Montebello to find Helen. Waited an hour reading the papers. Helen came in at one and we decided to have lunch there instead of going to that queer place under a palace.

Then we went to the Pension Crocini* and I engaged a room at 6 frs., 2 frs. extra for light, beginning next Tuesday. Then we went to a store to look at some dresses and didn’t like them and we wandered around the shops, finally ending at the Cinemattograph. It was called “La Tormenota” .We had to wait outside till the end of the act and then went in and saw the whole thing which took two hours. People leaving and entering every 10 minutes or so. It was a highly dramatic, sensational and emotional melo-drama, but I enjoyed it, the novelty of the situation immensely. Helen walked down to the car with me.

Got home before the first bell rang for dinner.

Played Sequence with Florence after dinner and beat her.

Had a very lengthy letter from Percy about that wretched old furniture situation enclosing exchange of letters between Florence, Hazel, and Percy. I am so sorry that there is this tensity of feeling between them.

*In the 1928 Baedeker, pg. 169, Pensione Crocini is at Lung Arno Guicciardini 9. As well it is listed in Artistic Guide to Florence (1910) on the Lung Arno Guicciardini.