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pleased with the two rugs. Yesterday got another highly coloured one, for my dressing room, at 18, but very crude
colours. Had a really hard day at the house & both tired by the time we finished ----

Sunday [11th April]

Worked at the house most of the day. Went over to D's for a bit in the morning & out for a walk with M in the
evening beyond the town at the back. It looked very pretty in the sunset. Saw packs of dogs, some of them ought to
be exterminated, they are a nuisance & a danger. Walked along the wide avenue planted with double trees which is
being made from the sea out to the site of the Shaikhs new palace which is to be a very gorgeous building. By the
evening we had the house practically fixed up, a big sofa (bed) at one end of the long room covered with cushions,
blue & orange, orange net curtains on the windows, & orange flowery cretonne on the doors. The furniture looks
really most awfully nice & is certainly a great success. Orange candle shades & the dull yellowish Persian rug give a
finish off to the colour scheme of blue & orange. Now I hope the box of presents will soon come as we need a few
more small oddments about the room. Mrs Daly came in to call in the morning. The cook cooks quite well but not
half as well as Dan. I wish I had him out here.

Monday [12th April]