There was pheasant and saddle of venison and crown roast of pork and a great lot of other stuff, everything O’Hum likes, and six wines. When Mrs MacLeod took Toire, and Lehzen and I went up to bed, Mamma was full of cheer and had roses on her cheeks. I went to sleep for quite a while, I thought, but something woke me v late at night. I’d taken a nap in the afternoon because of the party, so I was all at once v much awake, not at all sleepy. So I thought I’d write, since I have so little time for it these days. I had put my diary in the red drawing room behind the inlaid cabinet full of little ivory elephants that General Clive brought home from India, and I crept out of bed to go and get it. Lehzen must have been deep asleep, for she said nothing to me. And she does snore a bit, not loudly, but one can hear her. I was halfway down to the corner of the corridor when I heard Captain Conroy’s voice up ahead, and I saw there was a crack of light around the door into the card room.
