Strange, Mavis to Julia Briggs, Nov. 7

"Dear Julia So many thanks for your letter of October 26. I did enjoy my brief visit and only felt sad that at Whitebarn Cecily when not sinking into exhausted sleep was monopolised by Val's Mamar. and of course had filled up the Monday I had set aside for her with appointments (at the PentHouse after a funny little hotted-up lunch they both retired to sleep, until tea time when Cecily and I taxied up to Whitebarn - which we left the next day at 8.45 am!)..."