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1935
Sunday [27th January]
Court. Very cold day. Yesterday all the oil ladies called on Shaika Ayesha chaperoned by M & Mrs Van
Peussem, 17 of them, she received them in the big room at the Palace, they sat down in two lines along each
side of the room, and then Ayesha asked them various questions, asking each one the same question one after
the other like children in a school, what their names were, what their husbands' jobs were, etc. etc. It must
have been very funny. Really icy cold day, it was very uncomfortable in the court in spite of having the
doors shut. Went for a drive in the afternoon & after tea to Bridge at the Bank.
